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John Presco
God Is Dead!
Posted on March 22, 2022 by Royal Rosamond Press
John Presco
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I am running for Governor of Oregon and will build my platform upon the declaration…..
GOD IS DEAD!
In the last several weeks most of the human beings on Planet Earth have had to look at the idea there might be a third world war – and a nuclear holocaust – that will wipe us all out. If this happens, then the wonderment about whether there is a God – will be mute! Those who believe God has provided a heavenly afterlife (to those who qualify) will be very pleased with the outcome – IF they made it there! Of course they will be able to testify that indeed THERE IS A GOD! But, they are preaching to a heavenly choir. Humans will no longer inhabit the world that allegedly GOD MADE! Is this – GOD’s WILL? Will God – intervene? If not, then it does not matter if God is alive – or dead! Does it? I mean, there won’t be anyone left – to worship Him.
Welcome to Cold War Two! Toughen up!
My campaign will take a close look at The Beginning of The End that I believe took place in the 1966 election, that led up to The Southern Strategy, where Christian leaders rendered the Republican Party ‘God’s Party’ and thus it MUST SURVIVE AT ALL COSTS! Whatever it takes! Even becoming an ally of Vladameer Putin – is not off the table!
Take note that the blue states in the map above – are Democrat States. The War in Vietnam – did this! Did God – want that war? The Soviet Union backed North Vietnam. Our nation became divided – and has stayed divided – even more! Can we blame the Russians? Or, is God at fault?
My posts on the likelihood that God is dead, are campaign notes based upon dire current events. If God is dead, then it might be a good idea to RESORT to secular solutions in order to save human life forms. What do you say? Taking away the idea that Republicans are The Defenders of God, is crucial to all our survival. The rules for worshiping God were pretty simple until my party adopted the pro-life, anti-Obamacare, Holy Patriots Rule, issues. Worshipping someone was confusing in this Democracy, until Donald Trump had a fit over the size of the crowd at his inauguration. Everyone got his simple message;
WORSHIP ME!
John ‘Not a Rino’ Presco
Republican Candidate For Governor of Oregon
Disclaimer: The photo of me standing in front of a truck, that looks like the one I went to work in at Acme Produce, was taken by my newfound daughter near Sanoma California. I did not choose this image. It was shagged off the internet. I was a Child Lumper from the age of eight to eleven. I was paid a dollar a day. I will add this to my bio and send the paper my website. I attended Wolf Larsen’s College of Hard Knocks. You can say I tackle the real hard issues, the ones others wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole. This tells the enemies of Oregon you can’t pull the wool over our eyes, and conquer us with a column of tanks. Hey….my campsing motto!
“You can’t pull the wool over our eyes, or, conquer us with a column of tanks!”
Hey! I will print this on the bottom of MY GIANT FLAG, the ready-made iconic image, of a man, his truck, his white fence, his bloody trees!
My T.V. commercial will show me leading my men into battle while standing on the running-board;
“There will be no praying in my army. Either you die – or stick the enemy in the eye with your bayonet!”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
1966 United States elections – Wikipedia
“God is dead” (German: Gott ist tot (help·info); also known as the death of God) is a widely quoted statement made by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche used the phrase to express his idea that the Enlightenment had eliminated the possibility of the existence of God. However, proponents of the strongest form of the Death of God theology have used the phrase in a literal sense, meaning that the Christian God, who had existed at one point, has ceased to exist.
Nietzsche’s complete statement is:
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?
“We would like to carry on this mission together with the Soviet Union, because no one can do it without the Soviet Union.” — North Vietnamese General Võ Nguyên Giáp in a speech in Moscow, 1971
The Vietnam War is one of the most misunderstood, debated, and historically revised wars in our nation’s history, and this continues to be true nearly 50 years after the end of the conflict. When people talk about the Vietnam War today, opinions and emotions remain strong on both sides regarding everything from the truth about the Gulf of Tonkin incident to Walter Cronkite’s declaration after the Tet Offensive that the war was unwinnable to whether Jane Fonda is a traitor. All of these have been discussed and debated ad nauseum.
What is almost never mentioned is the role the Soviet Union played in helping North Vietnam win the war and the mistaken belief of most people that they never played an active part at all. In the Korean conflict a decade before America got deeply involved in Vietnam, there was never any question that a major communist power was involved. When it looked as though communist North Korea would fall during the American counterattack, the People’s Republic of China threw themselves fully into the fight, ultimately committing almost three million troops to the war, and losing 180,000 killed in action.
Is God Dead?
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April 8, 1966, cover of Time
“Is God Dead?” was an April 8, 1966, cover story for the news magazine Time.[1] A previous article, from October 1965, had investigated a trend among 1960s theologians to write God out of the field of theology. The 1966 article looked in greater depth at the problems facing modern theologians, in making God relevant to an increasingly secular society. Modern science seemed to have had eliminated the need for religion to explain the natural world, and God took up less and less space in people’s daily lives. The ideas of various scholars were brought in, including the application of contemporary philosophy to the field of theology, and a more personal, individual approach to religion.
The issue drew heavy criticism, both from the broader public and from clergymen. Much of the criticism was directed at the provocative magazine cover, rather than the content of the article. The cover—all black with the words “Is God Dead?” in large red text—marked the first time in the magazine’s history that text with no accompanying image was used. In 2008, the Los Angeles Times named the “Is God Dead?” issue among “12 magazine covers that shook the world”.[2]
Contents
Background[edit]
In 1966, Otto Fuerbringer had been editor of the news magazine Time for six years.[3] He helped to increase the circulation of the magazine, partly by changing its rather austere image. Though a conservative himself, he made the magazine focus extensively on the counter-culture and the political and intellectual radicalism of the 1960s.[4] A best-selling 1964 issue, for instance, had dealt with the sexual revolution.[4] Already in October 1965 the magazine had published an article on the new radical theological movement.[5]
The April 8, 1966, cover of Time magazine was the first cover in the magazine’s history to feature only type, and no photo.[6] The cover—with the traditional, red border—was all black, with the words “Is God Dead?” in large, red text. The question was a reference to Friedrich Nietzsche‘s much-quoted postulate “God is dead” (German: Gott ist tot),[7] which he first proposed in his 1882 book The Gay Science.
Themes presented[edit]
Problems[edit]
The article accompanying the magazine cover, titled “Toward a Hidden God” and written by religion editor John T. Elson, mentioned the so-called “God Is Dead” movement only briefly in its introduction. In a footnote it identified the leaders of the movement as “Thomas J. J. Altizer of Emory University, William Hamilton of Colgate Rochester Divinity School, and Paul van Buren of Temple University,” and ot explained how those theologians had been trying to construct a theology without God. The theme had already been dealt with in greater detail in the shorter and less prominent article “The ‘God Is Dead’ Movement” on October 22, 1965.[8]
Nietzsche’s thesis was that striving, self-centered man had killed God, and that settled that. The current death-of-God group believes that God is indeed absolutely dead, but proposes to carry on and write a theology without theos, without God.
— Toward a Hidden God
The article pointed out that while this movement had roots in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, it also drew on a broader range of thinkers. For example, philosophers and theologians like Søren Kierkegaard and Dietrich Bonhoeffer expressed concerns about the role of God in an increasingly secularised world. The immediate reality did not indicate a death of God or religion; Pope John XXIII‘s Second Vatican Council had done much to revitalize the Roman Catholic Church, while in the United States, as many as 97% declared a belief in God. Evangelical ministers such as Billy Graham and Christian artists like the playwright William Alfred could be brought as witness to the continued vitality of the Christian church. Nevertheless, this religiosity was mostly skin-deep; only 27% of Americans called themselves deeply religious.
The article then went on to explain the history of monotheism, culminating in the omnipresent Catholic church of the European Middle Ages. This zenith, however, was, according to the article, the beginning of the demise of Christianity: as society became increasingly secularised, the religious sphere of society became marginalised. Scientific discovery, from the Copernican Revolution to Darwin‘s theory of evolution, eliminated much of the need for religious explanations to life. Newton and Descartes were perhaps personally devout men, but their discoveries “explained much of nature that previously seemed godly mysteries.”
Possible solutions[edit]
Having laid out the philosophical and historical background, the article then asserted that there was still much curiosity among the general population about God and His relation to the world, and that for the modern theologian who wished to address this curiosity, there seemed to be four options:
stop talking about God for awhile, stick to what the Bible says, formulate a new image and concept of God using contemporary thought categories, or simply point the way to areas of human experience that indicate the presence of something beyond man in life.
According to the article, some contemporary ministers and theologians chose to focus on the life and teachings of Jesus, rather than on God, since Christ was a figure with great appeal among the broader population, but this solution ran dangerously close to ethical humanism. Biblical literalism, on the other hand, might have had an appeal to the fervent believer, but did not speak to most people in a world where the language of the Bible was increasingly unfamiliar.
The article described other attempts that had been made to solve to the problems of religion, including the adaptation of contemporary philosophical terminology to explain God, and cited efforts made to adapt the writings of Martin Heidegger and Alfred North Whitehead to modern theology. At the same time it noted that Ian Ramsey of Oxford had spoken of so-called “discernment situations”; situations in life that led man to question his own existence and purpose, and turn towards a greater power. The article concluded that the current crisis of faith could be healthy for the church, and that it might force clergymen and theologians to abandon previously held certainties: “The church might well need to take a position of reverent agnosticism regarding some doctrines that it had previously proclaimed with excessive conviction.”[7]
Reaction[edit]
April 13, 2009, cover of Newsweek magazine
The publication of the article immediately led to a public backlash. Editorial pages of newspapers received numerous letters from angry readers, and clergymen vehemently protested the content of the article.[5] Even though the article itself explored the theological and philosophical issues in depth, “[m]any people…were too quick to judge the magazine by its cover and denounced Time as a haven of godlessness”.[9] For Time the issue caused around 3,500 letters to the editor—the largest number of responses to any one story in the history of the magazine.[10] Reader criticism was targeted at Thomas J. J. Altizer in particular.[5] Altizer left Emory in 1968, and by the end of the decade the “death of God” movement had lost much of its momentum.[5] In its issue of December 26, 1969, Time ran a follow-up cover story asking, “Is God Coming Back to Life”?[11]
The magazine cover also entered the realm of popular culture: in a scene from the 1968 horror movie Rosemary’s Baby, the protagonist Rosemary Woodhouse picks up the issue in a doctor’s waiting room.[12] The “Is God Dead?” issue was to have an enduring place in American journalism. In 2008, the Los Angeles Times listed the issue in a featured titled “10 magazine covers that shook the world”.[6] In April 2009, Newsweek magazine ran a special report on the decline of religion in the United States under the title “The End of Christian America”. This article also referenced the radical “death of God” theological movement of the mid-1960s.[13] The front cover carried the title “The Decline and Fall of Christian America” in red letters on a black background, reminiscent of the 1966 Time cover.[14] The April 3, 2017, cover of Time featured a cover that asked “Is Truth Dead?” in a similar style to the iconic “Is God Dead?” cover, in a cover story about the alleged falsehoods perpetuated by President Donald Trump.[15]
The 1966 United States elections were held on November 8, 1966, and elected the members of the 90th United States Congress. The election was held in the middle of Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson‘s second (only full) term, and during the Vietnam War. Johnson’s Democrats lost forty-seven seats to the Republican Party in the House of Representatives. The Democrats also lost three seats in the U.S. Senate to the Republicans. Despite their losses, the Democrats retained control of both chambers of Congress. Republicans won a large victory in the gubernatorial elections, with a net gain of seven seats. This was the first election held after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which led to a surge in African-American voter participation.[1]
The Republican Party had risked sliding into irrelevance after the disastrous 1964 elections, and the GOP’s victory in this election invigorated the party, strengthening the conservative coalition. The GOP made inroads into the South and among blue collar workers, foreshadowing Nixon’s Southern strategy and the rise of Reagan Democrats, respectively. Among the newly elected Republicans were future presidents Ronald Reagan (who soon became the leader of the right-wing of the Republican Party) as Governor of California and George H. W. Bush as a representative from Texas, and future vice president Spiro Agnew as Governor of Maryland. The election also helped establish former vice president Richard Nixon (who campaigned heavily for Republicans) as a front-runner for the 1968 Republican nomination. President Johnson was mostly unable to pass major expansions to the Great Society in the 90th Congress.[2]
Ruled By Bohemian Boy Lumpers
Posted on May 28, 2016 by Royal Rosamond Press
My brother and I were raised under two systems. The Roman Mafia Slave & Crime Consortium, and The Sacred Rosy Prostitute and Defiant Wife Conglomerate. Study the photograph above. Mark, Christine, and I have just been told our mother is making porno movies for Big Bones Remmer, and is a part-time prostitute for the Mafia Boss. We are told to be extra good, or, we will be taken from Rosemary and put up for adoption. We will be separated by a Judge. This did not happen till after Christine somehow, drowned, and the Judge Silver appointed Sydney Morris, who secretly blessed the affair Vicki Presco was having with her brother-in-law, Garth Benton, that I suspect Christine discovered during her divorce, and threatened to disown Vicki as a sibling. Whatever!
Garth was an artist, and he was sticking it to his sister-in-law, thus Vicki believed she was a member of the art community. I conclude she is a whore, like her mother. But, that can’t be all that bad because some scholars believe Jesus was born of a whore and Roman general. Victor had dreams of being a Roman general when he was a teenager. Here he is doing an impression of Caligula with his granddaughter, Shannon after Little Victor brought her father back into the fold because he was paying extra special attention to her, and bribing her with money and toys – even candy! There is The Piata, and the The Rosy Betrayal of Poor Papa! Vicki was Victors – Cheerleader! Vic gave up his chance to be tough like his sons when he chose to be a coward and a child molester.
“Come! Let us pity him someone!” Note the statue of Saint Francis.
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/biblianazar/esp_biblianazar_7.htm
On the wall is my watercolor that was chosen to tour the world in a Red Cross show. This was quite an honor – a Family Honor! Our house is filled with family antiques. When you are disgraced, demeaned, and defiled at every turn, this recognition can change the dynamics of a family that is on the brink of destruction. No sooner did Rosemary drive Little Caesar out of our life with a knife, then, reality set in. His children were now her children – alone! Would he give us child support, or, would he continue to Ply Barflies For Pity? Would the Souza Brothers continue to get the Lion’s Share of King Victor’s earnings in our father’s need to outdo his father?
Then there were Rosemary’s sons who were entering their pubescence. Holy shit! What is that going to be like – without a father! Our mother was scared! Would we hate her for getting rid of our Father Figure? What father figure? A year before he died I asked Vic why he was so mean to his sons.
“Who was your role model, if he didn’t have one?”
“Wolf Larsen. He was my role model when I was a teenager. I wanted you and Mark to grow up tough.”
Mark and I were tough. Our peers did not fuck with us. We were very strong, and not just in a muscular way. We were Lumpers in Oakland’s Produce Market. See these hand carts? A grown Lumper will stack crates and boxes, to the top. Vic would let us get away with one box less. He got dirty looks from the Italian produce guys – and their grown sons – as my brother and I struggled with our load at eight and nine. It was an insane scene! Grown men wanted to punch Vic’s lights out. Now if this was a movie set?
“Cut! You boys need a rest. Help yourself to all the donuts and soft drinks!”
Mark and I raised our sisters with the help of our best friends, Bill Arnold, and Rick Young. We hardly saw Rosemary, even on the weekend. On Saturday morning The Children woke up and we made pancakes. Here is a list of The Children and our friends who often spent the night. Our home was a safe and creative haven for children. It was a Commune.
Mark Presco. Greg Presco. Christine Presco. Vicki Presco. Rick Young. Bill Arnold. Sue Garnick. Linda Johnson.
There was never enough money for food, light bulbs, shoe polish, soap, meat, ect. When we four boys would go shopping with Rosemary, we stuffed all we could in our specially sewn pockets. Bill and Rick would ask Rosemary what she needed, and, off they would go to break the law. We were great Shoplifters. We called ourselves Ma Barker and her Boys. How dare Vicki work Vic for extra goodies! She worked his mother, too.
Mark almost got it right when he came out with his webpage. But, he too couldn’t tell the truth about that painting on the wall, that always impressed Christine, who did not take up art until she was twenty-four. She told me;
“I owe my success to you – Brother Lumper!”
Mark and I were paid a dollar a day which was put in the bank. No sooner out the door, did King Victor go to the bank and empty his sons accounts of about $800 dollars. The great experiment was over. You can’t raise your boys on a tale written by a Bohemian Co-Founder of the Carmel Art Community.
I never saw a dime from Rosamond’s art. Vicki lured my child away from me. When Rosemary got arrested, she skiddaddled down to LA and left us in charge of an old crone that had brain damage. She looked just like a witch. She would come over after school was out, open a cold can of pork and beans. and sit with us as we watched Charley and Humpfrey. When it was nine, she got up and turned off the T.V. and ordered us to bed. We got up, unplugged our television, and took it upstairs. She would sit on that couch-bed eating her beans, staring at where the T.V. was for three months till Rosemary came and got us. She was struggling. She considered disappearing from our lives, and pursuing her dreams she forsake for Victor.
Rosemary and her family didn’t know we were sitting on a Bohemian Gold Mine. The world wanted our story – long before Christine Rosamond Benton became famous! They still do, but, I own it……….The Last of the Red Hot Bohemians! I got a bio that real artists would kill for! Read ‘Lust For Life’. The number one best seller is ‘The Bible’. It is full of horror stories, and men who have missed the mark and gone astray. Both books of the Bible are about ‘The Return of the Prodigal Son’. Why is that?
Jon Presco
Copyright 2016
http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/145534/Barbary-Coast-Gent-Original-Trailer-.html
http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/294862/Sea-Wolf-The-Movie-Clip-A-Criminal-Offense.html
Salome and Revelations
“Then fear came on all who dwelt around them; and all these sayings were BROADCAST throughout all the hill country of Judea. And all those who heard them kept them in their hearts, saying, “What kind of child will this be?” And THE HAND OF THE LORD was with him.”
As I awoke this morning my heart was heavy laden for I was comparing Rena Easton to Salome who danced for the head of John the Baptist. Rena is a great dancer. She danced for a ballet company in England. She took my words I sent her, and shredded them. She then took tiny pieces of paper to the Sheriff’s office and made an untrue and unjust accusation against me. She bore false witness in order to get the Sheriff to stop me from sending her MORE WORDS that upset her. SHE CUT OFF MY WORDS! She did not want me to be inspired – by the Holy Spirit = my Muse!
Belle is a dancer. She tried to steal my words, and give them to her radicals so they could use them, own credibility and take over Ken Kesey Square that is dedicated the THE WRITER whose statue is there, he HOLDING A BOOK, reading to children. Some say Ken took drugs and was inspired by his hallucinations. One Christian teacher claims REVELATIONS is a heresy.
Then, there is my unfaithful daughter who took herself out of my life so she could form a secret bond with my family who were trying to STOP ME FROM PUBLISHING MY BOOK. She wanted to be in the book outsiders were authoring. In an e-mail Heather Hanson asks me to sign a legal document that would forbid me to WRITE about her and her family, whose blood co-mingles with my blood, but, I WOULD BE CUT OFF by my offspring.
What does hand of the Lord mean?
Chronicles 28:19 “All this,” David said, “I have in writing from the hand of the LORD upon me, and he gave me understanding in all the details of the plan.”
David authored several Psalms that were inspired when the Spirit of the Lord came upon him. He records these words and then BROADCASTS them as he played the harp. Here is a troubadour – a Rock Star of David playing on God’s Radio! Did John the Baptist author the BOOK OF REVELATIONS? Did he begin this book – that was unfinished because his head was cut off? Did his disciple finish John’s book? What does this mean;
“Then fear came on all who dwelt around them.”
John is preaching an atonement as – THE END TIME ELIJAH! He is baptizing the children of God, so that when the Apocalypse comes, they will live forever in the New Heaven and Earth.
Why didn’t Jesus bid Paul to write the Lord’s Revelations? Paul loves to write! Why doesn’t he know about Revelations? Why do his words take away the Holy Spirit from John’s disciples he encounters . The hand of the Lord appears to be with Paul. He claims he got it while on the road to Damascus to murder more Nazarites. Why didn’t Jesus instruct Paul to go to some small island and write Revelations – just to keep him away from members of the first church who would send MANSLAYERS after him for torturing their children and wives – before murdering them. Besides, wasn’t Paul a third-rate prophet – and ugly who whined about not being as great as the Apostles?
“And he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power of Elijah”
Herbert Armstrong came so close to see the truth in regards to ‘The End Time Elijah’ . John would own all the powers of Elijah, and his disciple, Elisha, who healed the sick and raised the dead. John, nor his disciple recognized Jesus as THE LORD, nor did the disciples of Jesus. Jesus was made God because the birth of John the Baptist would not go away. Armstrong became powerful and rich with his Elijah. I believe he wanted to reveal the truth on his death bed, but his son stopped him, with the help of the evangelicals, because they wanted his wealth and power.
My angel has bid me to do Revelations. This is not the first time. But, in tracing my bloodline to Pioneer Mormon Prophets who came to Montana, and who might be kin to Nesta Rhys – THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN THE WORLD – then, my autobiography ‘Capturing Beauty’ ……..is COMING TO AN END!
ISIS has authored their own version of the APOCALYPSE. It’s God’s turn – now! THE HAND OF THE LORD IS UPON ME! They would cut off my head – and my hands! Come to Rose Mountain!
Jon ‘The Nazarite’
While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul traveled through the interior regions and came to Ephesus. He found some disciples 2 and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?”
“No,” they told him, “we haven’t even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”
3 “Then what baptism were you baptized with?” he asked them.
“With John’s baptism,” they replied.
4 Paul said, “John baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people that they should believe in the One who would come after him, that is, in Jesus.”
5 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 6 And when Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began to speak in other languages and to prophesy. 7 Now there were about 12 men in all.
http://biblehub.com/commentaries/guzik/commentaries/4201.htm
Luke 1:5-25New International Version (NIV)
The Birth of John the Baptist Foretold
5 In the time of Herod king of Judea there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah; his wife Elizabeth was also a descendant of Aaron. 6 Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, observing all the Lord’s commands and decrees blamelessly. 7 But they were childless because Elizabeth was not able to conceive, and they were both very old.
8 Once when Zechariah’s division was on duty and he was serving as priest before God, 9 he was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to go into the temple of the Lord and burn incense. 10 And when the time for the burning of incense came, all the assembled worshipers were praying outside.
11 Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing at the right side of the altar of incense. 12 When Zechariah saw him, he was startled and was gripped with fear. 13 But the angel said to him: “Do not be afraid, Zechariah; your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to call him John. 14 He will be a joy and delight to you, and many will rejoice because of his birth, 15 for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He is never to take wine or other fermented drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even before he is born. 16 He will bring back many of the people of Israel to the Lord their God. 17 And he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the parents to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous—to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”
http://biblehub.com/commentaries/guzik/commentaries/4201.htm
h. To turn the hearts of the fathers to the children: This quotation from Malachi 4:5-6 is meaningful for more than its reference to Elijah. These were essentially the last words in the Old Testament, and now God’s revelation is resuming where it had left off.
Now Elizabeth’s full time came for her to be delivered, and she brought forth a son. When her neighbors and relatives heard how the Lord had shown great mercy to her, they rejoiced with her. So it was, on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him by the name of his father, Zacharias. His mother answered and said, “No; he shall be called John.” But they said to her, “There is no one among your relatives who is called by this name.” So they made signs to his father; what he would have him called. And he asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, saying, “His name is John.” So they all marveled. Immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue loosed, and he spoke, praising God. Then fear came on all who dwelt around them; and all these sayings were discussed throughout all the hill country of Judea. And all those who heard them kept them in their hearts, saying, “What kind of child will this be?” And the hand of the Lord was with him.
Phrases Analyzed
“the hand of the Lord was upon me” Textual Analysis – “The glory of the Lord”
Blumrich was not a biblical scholar. He had no training or experience in textual analysis. He did not do one of the fundamental steps in analyzing texts to determine their meaning: find out how a word or phrase is used in other texts of the same culture.
2 Kings 3:15 But now bring me a harpist.”
While the harpist was playing, the hand of the LORD came upon Elisha 16 and he said, “This is what the LORD says: Make this valley full of ditches. 17 For this is what the LORD says: You will see neither wind nor rain, yet this valley will be filled with water, and you, your cattle and your other animals will drink.
1 Chronicles 28:19 “All this,” David said, “I have in writing from the hand of the LORD upon me, and he gave me understanding in all the details of the plan.”
Ezra 7:6 This Ezra came up from Babylon. He was a teacher well versed in the Law of Moses, which the LORD, the God of Israel, had given. The king had granted him everything he asked, for the hand of the LORD his God was on him
Ezra 7:27 Praise be to the LORD, the God of our fathers, who has put it into the king’s heart to bring honor to the house of the LORD in Jerusalem in this way 28 and who has extended his good favor to me before the king and his advisers and all the king’s powerful officials. Because the hand of the LORD my God was on me, I took courage and gathered leading men from Israel to go up with me.
Ezekiel 1:3 the word of the LORD came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, by the Kebar River in the land of the Babylonians. There the hand of the LORD was upon him.
Ezekiel 3:14. So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit but the hand of the Lord was strong upon me.
(NOT SO) STUPID QUESTIONS . . .
IF BLUMRICH IS RIGHT THEN . . .
Let’s assume Blumrich is correct that in the Book of Ezekiel “the hand of the Lord was upon me” means, “I was taken up in a spacecraft and felt strong pressure from the acceleration,” and look for answers to relevant questions . . .
Ezekiel 3:22 The hand of the LORD was upon me there, and he said to me, “Get up and go out to the plain, and there I will speak to you.”
Huh??? Per Blumrich, Ezekiel is feeling acceleration on take-off. The LORD tells him, “Get up and go out to the plain”. Isn’t Ezekiel . . . uhh . . . kinda busy at the moment?—flying in a spacecraft???
Ezekiel 33:21 In the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month on the fifth day, a man who had escaped from Jerusalem came to me and said, “The city has fallen!”
Ezekiel 33:22 Now the evening before the man arrived, the hand of the LORD was upon me, and he opened my mouth before the man came to me in the morning. So my mouth was opened and I was no longer silent.
Why would Ezekiel feel acceleration pressure? If he went on another flight, why doesn’t he write about it?
Ezekiel 37:1 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the LORD and set me in the middle of a valley, it was full of bones. 2 He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry. 3 He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones live?”
“The hand of the LORD (acceleration pressure) was upon me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the LORD (a spacecraft) and set me in the middle of a valley. It was full of bones.” Obviously, this is another flight! Why didn’t Blumrich mention it? Could it be because Ezekiel saw the bones coming together to form skeletons (v.37:7)? Maybe because Ezekiel saw muscles and skin start to grow on the skeletons (v. 37:8)? Perhaps because Ezekiel then saw the renewed bodies breathe and come back to life (v. 37:10)?
Maybe Blumrich did not include Chapter 37 verses because doing so would have shot his spacecraft theory full of holes and proved that “spirit” means exactly what it says—a non-physical supernatural living being. The Valley of Dry Bones vision is a prophecy of the resurrection of Israel as a nation after 2,000 years of foreign domination, which occurred in May 1948.
Ezekiel 40:1 . . . that very day the hand of the LORD was upon me and he took me there. 2 In visions of God he took me to the land of Israel and set me on a very high mountain, on whose south side were some buildings that looked like a city.
Ezekiel 8:1 In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, with the elders of Judah sitting before me, the hand of the Lord God fell there upon me. 2 Then I beheld, and lo, a form of what had the appearance of a man below what appeared to be his loins it was like fire, and above his loins it was like the appearance of brightness, like gleaming bronze. 3 He put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head and the spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven, and brought me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the gateway of the inner court that faces north, where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.
http://www.aboutbibleprophecy.com/p31.htm
John the Baptist
John the Baptist was the forerunner of Jesus Christ. He was born to the elderly Zechariah and his barren wife Elizabeth (similar to Abraham and Sarah). Elizabeth was a relative of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and both became pregnant a few months apart. (Luke 1:41-42). Both were visited by the angel, Gabriel.
John grew up in the wilderness and preached in the wilderness. His message was for people to repent because the Kingdom of heaven is at hand (Matthew 3:2). John baptized his followers in the Jordan River, to signify the drowning of their old life and their emergence from the water into a new life. John, as did Jesus later on, ran into conflict with the Pharisees and Sadducees for whom he had sharp words (Matthew 3:7-12).
John baptized Jesus, and proclaimed Him the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. Jesus Himself appraised John in Matthew 11:7-15. John was much more than a prophet, surpassing his predecessors in greatness, and comparable to Elijah. But John’s generation did not accept him, alleging instead that he was demon possessed (Matthew 11:17-18).
John’s role as forerunner to Jesus was alluded to in a prophecy from Isaiah 40:3, which spoke of A voice of one calling: “In the desert prepare the way for the Lord; make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God.” There is another prophecy, in Malachi 3:1, that also alludes to John the Baptist’s role in preparing the way for Jesus Christ.
John was beheaded AD 29 by Herod Antipas who imprisoned him in revenge for John’s condemnation of his incestuous marriage to his brother’s wife (Luke 3:19-20). Herodias’ daughter, danced for Herod, who rewarded her by offering her whatever she wished. On the advice of her mother, she requested the head of John the Baptist on a platter. Herod was grieved at being requested to execute him, but having given his oath before witnesses, he commanded that it be done (Matthew 14:1-11, Mark 6:14-28).
John the Apostle
John the Apostle was one of the original 12 apostles. He is the author of five New Testament books, including the Gospel of John, which is sometimes called the book of John. John, his brother James and their father Zebedee were Galilean fisherman. Jesus called John and James to leave their careers as fishermen and to become His apostles. Soon after, John and James became part of an inner circle around Jesus with Peter and sometimes Andrew. John along with Andrew had been disciples of John the Baptist and became followers of Jesus after He was baptized by John the Baptist.
John was the “beloved disciple” who leaned on Jesus during the Last Supper (John 13:23), who was “known to the high priest” (John 18:15), who was entrusted by Jesus with the care of His mother Mary (John 19:26), and who outran Peter to the empty tomb (John 20:2-4). After the resurrection, John appears as one of the leaders of the early church.
According to Papias, one of John’s disciples, John later went to the city of Ephesus. He was exiled under Emperor Domitian to the island Patmos. It was there that he wrote the Book of Revelation, which is the 27th book of the New Testament. Under Nerva, John returned to Ephesus, and there composed the Gospel of John, the 4th book of the New Testament, and three Epistles, called John 1, John 2, John 3. John reportedly died at a very old age.
John and his brother James were called the “Sons of thunder” by Jesus (Mark 3:17).
http://www.bjm-home.com/revelation/whojohn.html
http://www.patmospapers.com/ndex/john.htm
One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother.
https://www.lds.org/scriptures/gs/john-son-of-zebedee
God was performing extraordinary miracles by Paul’s hands, 12 so that even facecloths or work aprons[a] that had touched his skin were brought to the sick, and the diseases left them, and the evil spirits came out of them. 13 Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists attempted to pronounce the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “I command you by the Jesus that Paul preaches!” 14 Seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this. 15 The evil spirit answered them, “I know Jesus, and I recognize Paul—but who are you?” 16 Then the man who had the evil spirit leaped on them, overpowered them all, and prevailed against them, so that they ran out of that house naked and wounded. 17 This became known to everyone who lived in Ephesus, both Jews and Greeks. Then fear fell on all of them, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified. 18 And many who had become believers came confessing and disclosing their practices, 19 while many of those who had practiced magic collected their books and burned them in front of everyone. So they calculated their value and found it to be 50,000 pieces of silver. 20 In this way the Lord’s message flourished and prevailed.
http://errancy.org/disciples.html
Mark 2:18 and Luke 5:33 also mention that the disciples of John were behaving differently from the disciples of Jesus.
In a different context, we are told at Luke 7:18-23 and Matthew 11:2-6 that John’s disciples were relaying messages between him and Jesus.
I’m not sure what to make of all this. On the one hand, being a disciple of John doesn’t rule out also being a disciple of Jesus. I think this could resolve the problem of the messengers: they could have been disciples of both teachers. Also, since John was thrown in prison, it’s possible that many of his followers were never told that they should be following Jesus. That might solve the fasting problem – if these disciples of John were still following the “old rules”.
This passage sums up the whole problem. Why are these particular disciples – who should be aware that Jesus is the Messiah – still following John? Well, you might say that John’s followers loved him so much that they were unhappy to leave him. That seems possible. Alternatively, perhaps they hadn’t quite “got it” yet.
Even after his death, history records that John had many followers who were not Christians, but this can be explained away if we accept that not every follower of John would have been fully aware of all his teachings. It’s still a bit odd though.
In the end, I’ve not found any really sharp contradiction here, but it’s definitely a thorny issue.
http://errancy.org/disciples.html
John is described as having the unique practice of baptism for the forgiveness of sins.[13] Most scholars agree that John baptized Jesus.[14][15] Scholars generally believe Jesus was a follower or disciple of John[16][17][18] and several New Testament accounts report that some of Jesus’ early followers had previously been followers of John.[19] John the Baptist is also mentioned by the Jewish historian Josephus.[20] Some scholars maintain that John was influenced by the semi-ascetic Essenes, who expected an apocalypse and practiced rituals corresponding strongly with baptism,[21] although no direct evidence substantiates this.[22]
An apocalypse (Ancient Greek: ἀποκάλυψις apocálypsis, from ἀπό and καλύπτω meaning “uncovering”), translated literally from Greek, is a disclosure of knowledge, i.e., a lifting of the veil or revelation. In religious contexts it is usually a disclosure of something hidden. In the Book of Revelation (Greek: Ἀποκάλυψις Ἰωάννου, Apocalypsis Ioannou), the last book of the New Testament, the revelation which John receives is that of the ultimate victory of good over evil and the end of the present age, and that is the primary meaning of the term, one that dates to 1175.[1] Today, it is commonly used in reference to any prophetic revelation or so-called End Time scenario, or to the end of the world in general.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse
In his New Testament letters the Apostle Paul also has written about the judgment of the wicked and the glorification of those who belong to Christ or Messiah. In letters to the Corinthians and the Thessalonians Paul expounds further the destiny of the righteous. He speaks of the simultaneous resurrection and transformation of those who are in Christ (or Messiah).
Some Christian movements in the 18th and 19th centuries were characterized by a rise of Millennialism. All Christian apocalyptic eschatology has been concerned with the two themes referred to through the Bible as “this age” and “the age coming”. Evangelical Christians have been in the forefront popularizing the biblical prophecy of a major confrontation between good and evil at the end of this age, a coming Millennium to follow, and a final confrontation whereby the wicked are judged, the righteous are rewarded and the beginning of Eternity is viewed.
Some evangelical Christians have taught a form of millennialism known as Dispensationalism, which arose in the 19th century. Dispensationalists see separate destinies for the Christian Church and Israel. Their concept of a pre-Tribulation Rapture of the Church has become better known, thanks in part to the Left Behind series of books and films. Dispensationalists find in Biblical prophecy predictions of future events: periods of the Church, for example, shown through the letters to the seven churches in the Revelation of John; the throne of God in heaven and his glory; specific judgments that will occur on the earth; the final form of Gentile power; God’ re-dealing with Israel[22] based upon covenants mentioned in the Hebrew Old Testament; the second coming proper; a one-thousand year reign of Messiah; a last test of mankind’s sinful nature under ideal conditions by the loosing of Satan, with a judgment of fire coming down from Heaven that follows; the Great White Throne judgment, and the re-creation of the current heavens and the earth as a “New Heaven and New Earth”[23][24][25] ushering in the beginning of Eternity. A differing interpretation is found in the Post Tribulation Rapture.
One of the most extensive works covering the symbolic meanings in the Book of Revelation was written by Emanuel Swedenborg called the Apocalypse Revealed, first published in two volumes in Amsterdam in 1766, a condensed version of his unpublished work Apocalypse Explained. Unlike literal interpretations which seek to interpret the Book of Revelation in terms of historical events or some future visible event, the “end of the age” is described as the end of the old Christian Protestant and Catholic churches, to be superseded in a new age by the establishment of the New Church, symbolized by the New Jerusalem descending from heaven.
Some have speculated that as Zadok does not appear in the text of Samuel until after the conquest of Jerusalem, he was actually a Jebusite priest co-opted into the Israelite state religion. Harvard Divinity School Professor Frank Moore Cross refers to this theory as the “Jebusite Hypothesis,” criticizes it extensively, but terms it the dominant view among contemporary scholars, in Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic: Essays in the History of the Religion of Israel.[10] Further support for the Jebusite Hypothesis may be drawn from Zadok’s participation in the conspiracy among native Jerusalemites (i.e., Jebusites), including Nathan and Bathsheba, that displaced the non-Jerusalemite senior heir to King David’s throne, Adonijah, in favor of Bathsheba’s son Solomon (1 Kings 2:27, 35, 39), thus highjacking the throne and succession for the party of the conspirators.
Elsewhere in the Bible, the Jebusites are described in a manner that suggests that they worshipped the same God (El Elyon) as the Israelites, in the case of Melchizedek. Further support for this theory comes from the fact that other Jebusites or residents of pre-Israelite Jerusalem bore names invoking the principle or god Zedek (Tzedek) (see for example Melchizedek and Adonizedek). Under this theory the Aaronic lineage ascribed to Zadok is a later, anachronistic interpolation.[11]
Jerusalem is referred to as Salem rather than Jebus in the passages of Genesis describing Melchizedek.[5] According to Genesis, the ruler of Salem in the time of Abraham was Melchizedek (also Melchizedeq), and that as well as being a ruler, he was also a priest. Rashi points out that Melchizedeq was another name for Shem, son of Noah. Later, Joshua is described as defeating a Jebusite king named Adonizedek. The first parts of their names mean king and lord, respectively, but though the zedek part can be translated as righteous (making the names my king is righteous and my lord is righteous), most Biblical scholars believe that it is a reference to a deity named Zedek or Sydyk, who was the main deity worshipped by the Jebusites (making the names my king is Zedek and my lord is Zedek).[6] Scholars are uncertain, however, whether Melchizedek was himself intended in the Genesis account to be understood as a Jebusite, rather than a member of another group in charge of Jerusalem prior to the Jebusites.
Melchizedek, as a priest as well as king, was likely to have been associated with a sanctuary, probably dedicated to Zedek, and scholars suspect that the Temple of Solomon was simply a natural evolution of this sanctuary.[6][8]
Zadok (Hebrew: Tzadok צדוק, meaning “Righteous”) was a priest descended from Eleazar the son of Aaron. He aided King David during the revolt of his son Absalom, and was consequently instrumental in bringing King Solomon to the throne. After Solomon’s building of The First Temple in Jerusalem, Zadok was the first High Priest to serve there.
The prophet Ezekiel extols the sons of Zadok as staunch opponents of paganism during the era of its pagan worship and indicates their birthright to unique duties and privileges in the future temple (Ezekiel 42:13, 43:19).
A little later Josephus gave a detailed account of the Essenes in The Jewish War (c. 75 CE), with a shorter description in Antiquities of the Jews (c. 94 CE) and The Life of Flavius Josephus (c. 97 CE). Claiming first hand knowledge, he lists the Essenoi as one of the three sects of Jewish philosophy[7] alongside the Pharisees and the Sadducees. He relates the same information concerning piety, celibacy, the absence of personal property and of money, the belief in communality and commitment to a strict observance of Sabbath. He further adds that the Essenes ritually immersed in water every morning, ate together after prayer, devoted themselves to charity and benevolence, forbade the expression of anger, studied the books of the elders, preserved secrets, and were very mindful of the names of the angels kept in their sacred writings.
Pliny, also a geographer, located them in the desert near the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered.[8]
After a total of three years’ probation,[49] newly joining members would take an oath that included the commitment to practice piety towards “the Deity” (το θειον) and righteousness towards humanity, to maintain a pure lifestyle, to abstain from criminal and immoral activities, to transmit their rules uncorrupted and to preserve the books of the Essenes and the names of the Angels.[50] Their theology included belief in the immortality of the soul and that they would receive their souls back after death.[18][51] Part of their activities included purification by water rituals, which was supported by rainwater catchment and storage.
Ritual purification was a common practice among the peoples of Palestine during this period and was thus not specific to the Essenes. Ritual baths are found near many Synagogues of the period.[52] Purity and cleanliness was considered so important to the Essenes that they would refrain from defecation on the Sabbath.[53]
The Church Father Epiphanius (writing in the 4th century CE) seems to make a distinction between two main groups within the Essenes:[31] “Of those that came before his [Elxai, an Ossaean prophet] time and during it, the Ossaeans and the Nazarean.“[54] Epiphanius describes each group as following:
The Nazarean – they were Jews by nationality – originally from Gileaditis, Bashanitis and the Transjordan… They acknowledged Moses and believed that he had received laws – not this law, however, but some other. And so, they were Jews who kept all the Jewish observances, but they would not offer sacrifice or eat meat. They considered it unlawful to eat meat or make sacrifices with it. They claim that these Books are fictions, and that none of these customs were instituted by the fathers. This was the difference between the Nazarean and the others…[55]
After this Nazarean sect in turn comes another closely connected with them, called the Ossaeans. These are Jews like the former… originally came from Nabataea, Ituraea, Moabitis and Arielis, the lands beyond the basin of what sacred scripture called the Salt Sea… Though it is different from the other six of these seven sects, it causes schism only by forbidding the books of Moses like the Nazarean.[54]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essenes
http://www.christian-community.org/library/revelheresy.html
A careful reading of “Revelation” shows it disputes all twenty-six books preceding it. That being the case, it is heretical because it teaches opinions contrary to those of Jesus and his Apostles.
Heresy is defined as:� “An opinion or doctrine that is at variance with the orthodox or accepted doctrine, esp., of a church or religious system;” and, “the maintaining of such an opinion or doctrine.”
Heresy is a tough word. It is even tougher for someone to accuse a New Testament book of heretical content.
The doctrines of Christianity are derived from the New Testament record of Jesus and his Apostles. These records are constantly reviewed for assurance they are accurate and no new findings of ancient manuscripts or archeology change Christianity’s time tested records and opinions. There are twenty-seven books in the New Testament Record. The twenty-seventh is the Book of Revelation.
Careful reading of “Revelation” shows it disputes all twenty-six books preceding it. That being the case, “Revelation” teaches heresy because it teaches opinions contrary to those of Jesus and his Apostles.
So you immediately ask, prove it! Show anything John of Patmos (John Patmos) has written that is contrary to Jesus’ Gospel!
The answer is that almost everything in John Patmos’ hallucination opposes the Gospel Jesus’ words, ways, and teachings. All one must do is pay attention to what John Patmos wrote. That will be done, with some detail, later in this critique. But first, some general background information is needed.
The Greek literary styles of John Patmos and John Apostle were examined in very early Christianity to prove these are two different writers. Eighteen hundred years ago, Dionysius (Bishop of the Patriarchy of Alexandria) stated that “Revelation” was not written by the same person who wrote John’s Gospel and Letters. (Eusebius’ History of the Church, 7.25) His opinion came from his comparing their two writing styles and found John Patmos to be entirely different from John Apostle and any other New Testament writer.
We do not need to be Greek scholars to look at the text of the Gospel and letters of Apostle John to notice John Patmos contradicts John Apostle at every turn. Those examples are examined in this report. But now we should remember that “Revelation” was doubted in Eastern Christianity and not generally accepted into the New Testament until AD 508. Some ancient Christian branches still do not include it in their Bibles. Therefore discussion and criticism of “Revelation” is not a new and is not a disrespectful activity.
Salome /səˈloʊmiː/[1] (Greek: Σαλώμη Salōmē, pronounced [salóːmeː]) (c. AD 14 – between 62 and 71) was the daughter of Herod II and Herodias. According to Flavius Josephus‘s Jewish Antiquities, Salome was first married to Philip the Tetrarch of Ituraea and Trakonitis. After Philip’s death in 34 AD she married Aristobulus of Chalcis and became queen of Chalcis and Armenia Minor. They had three children. Three coins with portraits of Aristobulus and Salome have been found.[2] Her name in Hebrew is שלומית (Shlomiẗ, pronounced [ʃlomiθ]) and is derived from the root word שָׁלוֹם (shalom), meaning “peace”.[
Salome is often identified with the dancing woman from the New Testament (Mark 6:17-29 and Matthew 14:3-11, where, however, her name is not given). Christian traditions depict her as an icon of dangerous female seductiveness, notably in regard to the dance mentioned in the New Testament, which is thought to have had an erotic element to it, and in some later transformations it has further been iconized as the Dance of the Seven Veils. Other elements of Christian tradition concentrate on her lighthearted and cold foolishness that, according to the gospels, led to John the Baptist‘s death. [Reference?]
A similar motif was struck by Oscar Wilde in his Salome, in which she plays the role of femme fatale. This parallel representation of the Christian iconography, made even more memorable by Richard Strauss’ opera based on Wilde’s work, is as consistent with Josephus’ account as the traditional Christian depiction; however, according to the Romanized Jewish historian, Salome lived long enough to marry twice and raise several children. Few literary accounts elaborate the biographical data given by Josephus.
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