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NOTE: I STARTED WORKING ON THIS PART IN EARLY AUGUST 2008, WHEN I HAD THOUGHT THAT ALL THE PEOPLE/THINGS MENTIONED HERE WERE TYPES/SYMBOLS OF CHRIST. I DID NOT REALIZE UNTIL THE FIRST WEEK OF NOVEMBER 2008, AFTER WORKING ALMOST DAILY ON THIS WEBSITE, THAT MOST OR ALL THESE PEOPLE/THINGS ARE TYPES/SYMBOLS OF THE ANTI-CHRIST WHO WILL RESEMBLE JESUS SO STRONGLY THAT HE WILL DECEIVE THE WHOLE WORLD. THEREFORE, SOMETIMES YOU WILL ENCOUNTER ME SAYING "TYPE OF CHRIST" WHEN I SHOULD HAVE SAID "TYPE OF ANTICHRIST."

“[The LORD] works all things according to the counsel of His will.” -Ephesians 1:11 [i.e. all according to His will of bringing His people to know Him and to love Him with all their heart, mind, soul, and strength.]

I propose that God “guided” the authors (presumably without their knowing it) I mention in this part (including Homer, Hesiod, the authors of the Buddhist Scriptures, the authors of the Hindu Scriptures, the author(s) of Confucius’s Analects, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Plato, Aristotle, and Virgil!) to depict persons resembling Jesus very highly (including Achilles, Hector, Odysseus, Buddha, the Trimurti of Hinduism, Confucius, Zeus, Iphigenia, Apollo, Dionysus/Bacchus, Socrates, and Aeneas); and arranged the circumstances of the lives of the historical persons I mention in this part such as Socrates, Alexander the Great, and Julius Caesar, in order to show how truthful the Bible is, just as God made all the people/things mentioned in Part Two resemble Jesus. There are too many similarities between these persons and Jesus for the similarities to be purely coincidental. In fact, every person I quote from in this part who noticed these similarities concluded that the similarities between the ancient gods, including Buddha and Julius Caesar, are so numerous and so uncommon that they think the Gospel accounts of Jesus’ life must have been based on the lives of those ancient gods! But, if you realize that the facts of Jesus’ life are also demonstrated by many people in the Old Testament such as Noah, Isaac, Joseph, Moses, Joshua, and David; and even by many things in nature such as the Sun, the water, and dogs; you will see with God’s help that the only reasonable conclusion is that God directed the lives of these people just as He directed the lives of those heroes of the Old Testament, and for the same purpose of helping us to know who Jesus really is. The more you read what I wrote in this part, the more evident this fact should become. If you doubt that God could or would speak through Homer, Plato, Virgil, etc., remember: "THE ANSWER OF THE TONGUE IS OF THE LORD." -Proverbs 16:1

I am very confident that what I have written in this part is true. I have carefully studied especially Homer, Aeschylus-Sophocles-Euripides, Plato, Aristotle, and Virgil since first being introduced to them at St. John's College in 2003. Aside from the Bible, I have spent more time studying the works of Plato than the works of any other author, and have read about twenty-four of his books.When I talk about the books of these authors, I speak almost exclusively from my own reading of them, not from what I have read about them.

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ANCIENT ENGLAND & LEBANON, TONGA (near Hawaii):
STONEHENGE (~3000-2200 BC?) & other sites containing trilithons: The Holy Trinity are the "rocks" which bring healing: "My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge" (2 Samuel 22:3)

It is most interesting that trilithons are found in places throughout the world which are very far apart from one another. What's more amazing is the fact that the ones at Stonehenge and the one at Tonga look very similar, although Tonga was not discovered by Europeans until 1616 and is very far from England, so you can't plausibly argue that one was made by humans to resemble the other. On the contrary, I claim that the three persons of the Holy Trinity authored all these trilithons (with or without the help of human builders who probably didn't know what these rocks symbolized) to symbolize themselves, as I will now argue, and as is further supported by all the evidence I have amassed and published on this website that other "wonders of the world" such as the three Pyramids of Giza & the Great Sphinx of Egypt, the Parthenon of Athens, the Colossus of Rhodes & the Statue of Liberty, and Notre Dame & NYC's Twin Towers were all constructed by God to symbolize the persons of the Trinity, especially Jesus, as well.

1) Stonehenge, in England:

Look at all the sets of three rocks, which like many other symbols of the Trinity (such as the three pyramids of Giza) have two members more similar to one another than to the third.

Stonehenge
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/upload/img_400/Stonehenge_1_-_resized.jpg

It is surrounded by a ceremonial landscape comprising more than 300 burial mounds and major prehistoric monuments.

Original Stonehenge? The circle symbolizes God, who has no beginning or end
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Stonehenge_-_Original.JPG&imgrefurl=http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Stonehenge_-_Original.JPG&h=1309&w=2946&sz=897&hl=en&start=1&um=1&usg=__w7N3pCrMZm9QJFC0pgwqHJHX6NM=&tbnid=bKUQ5yELue7lpM:&tbnh=67&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dstonehenge%2Boriginal%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den%26sa%3DG

http://www.britannia.com/history/h7.html
Stonehenge is surely Britain's greatest national icon, symbolizing mystery, power and endurance. Its original purpose is unclear to us, but some have speculated that it was a temple made for the worship of ancient earth deities. It has been called an astronomical observatory for marking significant events on the prehistoric calendar [and it is aligned such that it can predict eclipses etc., as the three persons of the Trinity can predict everything because they know everything]. Others claim that it was a sacred site for the burial of high-ranking citizens from the societies of long ago. While we can't say with any degree of certainty what it was for, we can say that it wasn't constructed for any casual purpose. Only something very important to the ancients would have been worth the effort and investment that it took to construct Stonehenge...The question of who built Stonehenge is largely unanswered, even today. [God is the ultimate author of it, though He presumably built it through humans. Or not?]

-Evidence that Stonehenge was associated with Apollo, the SUN god & god of healing of sicknesses of body & soul, made by God to symbolize Christ:

---http://www.physorg.com/news82898170.html: around the Stonehenge landscape, there are many burials, some of which have been excavated and amongst these there are a good proportion of people who show sings of being unwell – some would have walked with a limp or had broken bones – just the sort of thing that in modern times pressurises people to seek help from the Almighty.

---http://www.lifeinthefastlane.ca/lost-city-apollo-found-at-stonehenge/weird-science: Dennis Price, an authority on the history of Stonehenge claims the legendary city of Apollo is located at King’s Barrow Ridge, overlooking Stonehenge.

---http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/gem-projects/hm/0102-1-stonehenge/temple.htm:"in an island in the seas to the north of Celtic Gaul...a magnificent sacred precinct of Apollo and a notable temple which is adorned with many votive offerings and is spherical in shape"-- quotes from the Journal of Pytheas' Travel. The author of the journal of Pytheas' travels suggested that the Stonehenge was a temple to the god Apollo on the British Isles

http://www.crystalinks.com/stonehenge.html
Stonehenge is angled such that on the equinoxes and the solstices, the sun rising over the horizon appears to be perfectly placed between gaps in the megaliths. But this is purely coincidence - the Earth's orbit has shifted several times in the 5000 years since it was built, and at the time of it's construction, the sun would not have lined up with the gaps at all! [It's not a coincidence: God made this happen to show that He, who is omniscient, could foresee where the Sun would be at this time in history, when Stonehenge would be revealed to be authored by God Himself!]

stonehenge

http://www.amazon.com/Stonehenge-Druidism-Divine-guide-building/dp/0934666040/ref=pd_sim_b_3 : An entire book was written by a man named Dr. Capt called Stonehenge and Druidism - Did a Divine Hand guide the building of Stonehenge? which like me argues that God guided the building of Stonehenge, given the superhuman knowledge embedded in it. This man also wrote a book called The Great Pyramid Decoded: God's Stone Witness which argues the same point about the Great Pyramid of Giza which I discuss below!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha%27amonga_%27a_Maui
2) Ha?amonga ?a Maui (Burden of Maui) - is a 12-ton stone trilithon located in Tonga, Heket?, near the village of Niut?ua, in the north of the island of Tongatapu, in the Pacific Ocean.

It is constructed from of three limestone slabs, and is about 5m high, 2m wide, 6m long. Ha'amonga 'a Maui was built at the beginning of the 13th century under the 11th Tu?i Tonga Tu?it?tui (king strike the knee), most likely as a gateway to his royal compound Heket?. One can pass through the portal and walk the short distance towards the ?esi maka faakinanga (stone to lean against), which served as the king's throne. Sitting with his back to that stone he was safe from assassins from behind and with his long stick he could hit every potential foe from the front on his knees.

In popular myths the Ha?amonga is believed to have been made by the demigod Maui, as the stones would be too huge for mortals to handle.

The resemblance of the trilithon with Stonehenge is often quoted

tonga Haamonga a Maui

(from Wikipedia:)

Maui & his brothers/sons who had the same name
demigod said to have created the Hawaiian Islands

M?ui’s next feat is to stop the sun from moving so fast. His mother Hina complains that her kapa (bark cloth) is unable to dry because the days are so short. M?ui climbs to the mountain Hale-a-ka-l? (house of the sun) and lassoes the sun’s rays as the sun comes up. [Just as Joshua, a type of Christ, does with God's help when he calls upon God to have the Sun halt in the sky (Joshua)!]

He has a miraculous birth—his mother throws her premature infant into the sea wrapped in a tress of hair from her topknot (tikitiki)—hence M?ui is known as M?ui-tikitiki-a-Taranga. Ocean spirits find and wrap the child in sea-weed. M?ui's divine ancestor, Tama-nui-ki-te-rangi (or Rangi) then takes the child and nourishes it to adolescence. [Just like Moses, a type of Christ (Exodus 1-2)]

In the mythology of Tahiti, Maui was a wise man, or prophet. He was a priest, but was afterwards deified [Jesus too is a wise man, prophet, priest, & God!]…As the discoverer of fire, Maui was named Ao-ao-ma-ra'i-a because he taught the art of obtaining fire by friction of wood. Before this time people ate their food raw. [Like the Greek god Prometheus, a type of the Antichrist]

Maui bears the earth on his shoulders [Like the Greek god Atlas, a type of the Antichrist]

3) Trilithon of Temple of Zeus located in the city of Baalbeck in Lebanon:

...temple complex in Baalbeck consisting of three temples: Jupiter, Bacchus and Venus. On a nearby hill, they built a fourth temple dedicated to Mercury. [all four of these are types of Christ] The city, then known as Heliopolis [the "city of the SUN," which is a symbol of God!]...

(http://atheism.about.com/od/religiousplaces/ig/Baalbek-Temples-Lebanon/Baalbek-Trilithon-Stone-Blocks.htm) At 290 feet long, 160 feet wide, the Temple of Jupiter Baal ("Heliopolitan Zeus") in Baalbek, Lebanon, was created to be the largest religious complex in the Roman empire. As impressive as this is, one of the most impressive aspects of this site is almost hidden from view: beneath and behind the ruined remains of the temple itself are three massive stone block called the trilithon.These three stone blocks are the largest building blocks ever used by any human beings anywhere in the world. Each one is 70 feet long, 14 feet high, 10 feet thick, and weigh around 800 tons...No one knows how these stone blocks were cut, transported from the nearby quarry, and fit so precisely together. [Explanation: God put them there without the help of humans, since they would have been too heavy for humans to carry? God used giants, who existed according to the Bible, to put them there? The three presumably symbolize the three persons of the Trinity who all have the same essential Divine Nature, insofar as they are all eternal, omniscient, omnipresent, perfectly good, etc. Sometimes the symbols of the Trinity have the three symbols of them appear equal.]

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ANCIENT CHINA:

-“THE THREE SOVEREIGNS” ~ THE HOLY TRINITY

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Sovereigns_and_Five_Emperors
mythological rulers of China during the period from c. 2852 BCE to 2205 BCE, which is the time preceding the Xia Dynasty. [According to the timeline on this webpage, they preceded all other Chinese kings. Truly are the persons of the Holy Trinity including Jesus the most ancient rulers of the universe! Truly is it said about the Messiah king in Micah 5:2 that his “goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.”]
Its [their common name’s] original meaning, and the most likely translation thereof, is that of supreme being, a kind of Übermensch [“more than a man”], rather than 'emperor'.
The Three Sovereigns, sometimes known as the Three August Ones, were said to be god-kings or demigods who used their magical powers to improve the lives of their people. Because of their lofty virtue, they lived to a great age and ruled over a period of great peace.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God-kings
In ancient China, an emperor was considered the Son of Heaven. The scion and representative of heaven on earth, he was the ruler of all under heaven, the bearer of the Mandate of Heaven, his commands considered sacred edicts.

Before the end of World War II, the Japanese Emperor made similar claims to descent from the gods

The Ancient Egyptian male Pharaohs were believed to be incarnations of the god Horus [associated with the god of the Sun, which is a symbol of Jesus God the Son as I show in Part One], derived by being the son of the sun deity, Hathor (or later, Isis), or the sky deity, Nut.

1. Fu Xi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuxi
In Chinese mythology, Fu Xi or Fu Hsi, mid 2800s BCE, was the first of the mythical Three Sovereigns (?? s?nhuáng) of ancient China.
According to legend the land was swept by a great flood and only Fuxi and his sister Nüwa survived, leaving all other disappeared and vanished from the surface. They retired to Kunlun Mountain where they prayed for a sign from the Emperor of Heaven. The divine being approved their union and the siblings set about procreating the human race. It was said that in order to speed up the procreation of humans, Fu Xi and Nüwa find an additional way by using clay to create human figures, and with the power divine being entrusted to them, they made the clay figures to come alive. [1] Fu Xi then came to rule over his descendents although reports of his long reign vary between sources from 115 years (BCE 2852-2737) to 116 years (BCE 2952-2836).

He lived for 197 years altogether. [Truly did Noah live far longer than modern human beings! (Genesis 10)]

FUXI Fu Xi & Nüwa

2. Nüwa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nüwa
There could be some parallels from the elements of the story to some of the story told in the book of Genesis. These are:
-[Her name sounds remarkably similar to Noah’s and is also four letters long!]
-Nüwa's creation of humans from mud has similarities with the story of Adam's creation from soil (and other earth origin myths, such as the Greek myth of Deucalion-Pyrrha who created humans by flinging pebbles)
-The Fuxi-Nüwa brother & sister element is similar to Adam and Eve coming from the same body [and both are indeed depicted as coming from the same body: look at the picture]
-The Fuxi-Nüwa have a half snake element. In Genesis, Adam and Eve are tempted by a serpent.
-(475 - 221 BC) author: Lie Yukou, book: Liezi, chapter 5: "Questions of Tang", paragraph 1: account: "Nüwa repairs the heavens" detail: Describes Nüwa repairing the imperfect heaven,. detail: The heaven was imperfect at the beginning, Nüwa use five colored stones to repair the heaven. [Truly did God put a multi-colored rainbow in the cloud when He made His covenant with Noah! (Genesis 9)]

3. Shennong
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shennong
a legendary ruler of China and culture hero of Chinese mythology who is believed to have lived some 5,000 years ago, and taught ancient China the practices of agriculture. Appropriately, his name means "the Divine Farmer". [Jesus is the farmer who "sows" the "seed" of His Word. (Matt. 13: Parable of the Sower)]

The most well-known work attributed to Shennong is the The Divine Farmer's Herb-Root Classic…It includes 365 medicines derived from minerals, plants, and animals. Shennong is credited with identifying hundreds of medical (and poisonous) herbs by personally testing their properties, which was crucial to the development of Traditional Chinese medicine…Tea, which acts as an antidote against the poisonous effects of some seventy herbs, is also said to be his discovery…Shennong is venerated as the Father of Chinese medicine. [Truly does Jesus "heal" us from all our sicknesses, both physical & spiritual! (Isaiah 53) Socrates, a type of the Antichrist, often characterized himself as a "doctor" or "healer" of the soul, as did Jesus Christ.]

-LAO-TZU

-both he & Jesus have influenced millions of people: "The number of Taoists is difficult to estimate, due to a variety of factors including defining Taoism. The number of people practicing Chinese folk religion is estimated to be just under four hundred million.[70] Most Chinese people and many others have been influenced in some way by Taoist tradition. Estimates for the number of Taoists worldwide range from twenty to over fifty million." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoism#Adherents)

-both he & Jesus have remarkably similar sayings: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daodejing: Since Christian missionaries were among the first Westerners to study the Tao Te Ching, it is not surprising that they connected Taoism with Christianity. Assimilation of local religions often helped missionary efforts to convert the populace to Christianity. They drew many parallels between the New Testament and the Tao Te Ching, for instance, "Do good to those who hate you" (Luke 6:27, tr. NASB) and "Requite injuries with good deeds" (chap. 63, tr. Waley). Note that the Chinese Bible translates logos ("the Word") as Tao ("the Way").
Two particular Tao Te Ching chapters are perceived as exemplifying Christian themes. Chapter 42 bears a resemblance to the Trinity doctrine: "The Way gave birth to unity, Unity gave birth to duality, Duality gave birth to trinity, Trinity gave birth to the myriad creatures." (tr. Mair 1990:9).
Zhuangzi once stated in a passage from his famous work Inner Chapters, that a great sage would come who would bring knowledge and peace to all men; though he didn't know if it would be in a thousand years or in a day.[citation needed] This was interpreted by missionaries as a prediction or foreshadowing of Christ. [a similar prophecy is apparently given by Buddha in the Buddhist Scriptures of Cambodia!]

From Wikipedia:
Laozi is revered as a god in religious forms of Taoism. [Jesus "the Word was God." (John 1:1)]

Historians variously contend that Laozi is a synthesis of multiple historical figures, that he is a mythical figure, or that he actually lived in the 4th century BC. [Jesus too is believed to be a synthesis of pagan gods, a myth, or a historical person.]

Popular legends say that he was conceived when his mother gazed upon a falling star, stayed in the womb for sixty-two years, and was born when his mother leaned against a plum tree. He accordingly emerged a grown man with a full grey beard and long earlobes, which are a symbol of wisdom and long life..[7][8] In other versions he was reborn in some thirteen incarnations since the days of Fuxi; in his last incarnation as Laozi he lived to nine hundred and ninety years, and traveled to India to reveal the Dao. [Jesus too is born miraculously, although in a different manner. Similarly, Isaac, another type of Christ, is born of Sarah when she is 90 years old. Thus, Lao's miraculous birth supports his being a type of the Antichrist.]

Some legends elaborate further that the "Old Master" was the teacher of the Buddha, or the Buddha himself. [And Buddha is a type of the Antichrist!]

http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96jun/laotzu.html: the eighty-one sayings of the “Tao-Te Ching.” This ancient Chinese text is the world’s most translated classic next to the Bible. [Truly are the sayings in the Bible the very words of Jesus, God the Son!]

---THE THREE PURE ONES: symbolize the Holy Trinity

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Pure_Ones
The Three Pure Ones also translated as the Three Clarities are the three highest Taoist deities. [Truly "God is light" (1 John 1:5) & truly are the persons of the Holy Trinity the supreme lords of the universe!]

The Three Pure Ones represent the three divine natures of all living beings. They symbolize a kind of Taoist trinity: Tao begets One; one begets two; two begets three; three begets all things (Tao Te Ching, Chapter 42) [Truly did the Trinity beget all things!]

According to Taoist scriptures, The Universally Honoured One of Tao and Virtues had manifested many various incarnations to teach living beings, and Laozi is one of his incarnations. [Truly is Jesus God the Son become flesh. (John 1:1, 1:14)]

Yuanshi Tianzun [the first person of this "trinity", analogous to God the Father] is said to be without beginning and the most supreme of all beings. He is in fact, a representation of the principle of all being. From him all things arose. He is eternal, limitless, and without form.

-CONFUCIUS: discussed below together with Socrates of Ancient Athens

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ANCIENT INDIA:

-HINDUISM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimurti#cite_note-5

One type of depiction for the Trimurti shows three heads on one neck, and often even three faces on one head, each looking in a different direction

trimurti trinity

The Trimurti (literally indicating three forms or trinity), is the representation of the three projections of the Supreme Reality, each with a specific cosmic function. These manifestations are that of Brahma (serving the cosmic function of creation), Vishnu (serving the cosmic function of renewal and preservation), and Shiva (serving the cosmic function of dissolution or destruction that precedes re-creation) [So do the persons of the Holy Trinity have specific functions: Jesus God the Son pays the "ransom" to God the Father for the sins of the world through His death on the cross; God the Holy Spirit is the person who bestows gifts such as prophecy (1 Corinithians 12) and "fruit" such as faith, love, and peace in humans (Galatians 5:22-23)]

the different sects often conceived the Trimãurti as really the three manifestations of their own sectarian god, whom they regarded as Brahman or AbsoluteVaishnavism generally does not accept the Trimurti concept. For example, the Dvaita school holds Vishnu alone to be the supreme God, with Shiva subordinate. In Gaudiya Vaishnavism, Shiva is considered the best of devotee of Vishnu (vaisnavanam yatha sambhu) and also an aspect of Vishnu but not the same as Vishnu. In this view, Shiva is also viewed as subservient to Lord Vishnu, although it is still understood that he is above the category of an ordinary jiva (living entity). In one interpretation, Brahma is considered by Gaudiya Vaishnavites to be the highest of the jivas. [So is God the Son subordinate or "subject unto" God the Father (1 Corinithians 15:28, John 20:17: Jesus calls the Father "my God"), and God the Holy Spirit subordinate to both.]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatars: Avatar or Avatara (Sanskrit: ?????, IAST Avat?ra) in Hindu philosophy is the 'descent' or incarnation of a divine being (deva) or the supreme being (God) onto planet Earth. The Sanskrit word avat?ra literally means "descent" (avatarati) and usually implies a deliberate descent into lower realms of existence for special purposes. The term is used primarily in Hinduism for incarnations of Vishnu. [Truly was it said about God the Son, the second person of the Holy Trinity, that "The Word took on flesh." (John 1:14)]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman

The Supreme Cosmic Spirit or Absolute Reality called Brahman (not to be confused with the Creator god

Brahma) is said to be eternal, genderless, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, and ultimately indescribable in human language.

It can be best described as infinite Being, infinite Consciousness, and infinite Bliss.[All these qualities are shared by the three persons of the Christian Trinity]

Brahman is beyond the senses, beyond the mind, beyond intelligence, beyond imagination. [There is much about God that we cannot understand now, such as how He can be conscious of and rule in many places all over the world at the same time!]

If one seeks Brahman via true knowledge, Atman seeks truth and accepts it no matter what it is. Atman accepts all truths of the self/ego, and thus is able to accept the fact that it is not separate from its surroundings. Then Atman is permanently absorbed into Brahman and become one and the same with it.

in life everything is an expression of Brahman [So does God display Himself throughout all history, as I show in Parts Two and Three, and in many objects of nature such as the Sun, wind, water, etc., as I discuss in Part One]

---KRISHNA (CRISHNA):

-22 very uncommon similarities between Krishna (Crishna) & Christ: http://www.innvista.com/culture/religion/deities/crishna.htm

-http://mosesonmissions.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/sharing-christ-with-hindus/ : "Chandra was an evangelist among Hindu who would first listen to the Hindu point of view and appreciate what is good before sharing Christ. Hindus loved Chandra because he used examples from Hindu writings. He would highlight the Hindu principles and in suitable ways compare them to Christ. He was always referring to the life of Christ when he interacted with Hindus. When they invited Chandra to speak at Hindu gatherings he would tell about the Hindu saints and compare them to the life of Christ."

-According to a Christian missionary who has talked to many Hindus about Christianity, "Most Hindus esteem religion in general and are free and open to speak about it." (http://philosopher-food4thought.blogspot.com/2008/09/ten-ways-to-convert-hindu-shocking.html)

-BUDDHA (~560-480 BC)

buddha

The following paragraphs are from an address by Lars Adelskogh at the International Seminar "The Sanskrit and Buddhist Sources of the New Testament", Klavreström, Sweden, September 11, 2003 (final version).(http://www.jesusisbuddha.com/larsa.html)

Siddhârtha Gautama was born about 560 B.C. Just as Jesus he dwelled as a spiritual being in heaven before his birth. He incarnated voluntarily in order to save the world. His mother was Queen Mâyâ, a name that is reminiscent of Mary (Maryam, Miryam). Mâyâ was later regarded as a virgin. She was believed to have been impregnated by a divine being in the shape of a white elephant that penetrated her through her right side...The Buddha was therefore regarded as the Son of God (devaputra). Siddhârtha is not born in the royal palace at Kapilavastu but while his mother is on a travel. An angel (deva) announces that the child is holy and a future redeemer. The child radiates a dazzling light and receives homage from heaven. Wise men recognize in him the signs of a god or superman (mahâpurisa). He is sought after in wide areas and receives veneration. As a little boy he is revered by an old wise man, Asita, like Jesus was revered by Symeon. In the Gospel according to Luke (2:25-34) we read:

"…there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout… and it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ. And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, …, then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God and said, Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word: For mine eyes have seen thy salvation, which thou hast prepared before the face of all people; a light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel… this child is set for the fall and rising of many in Israel…"

Now compare this with what is said in the Suttanipâta (689f) of the encounter of Siddhârtha and Asita:
"The long-haired wise man looked upon the child, and with a great joy he took him up… a man who now, filled with pleasure, raised his voice and said: This one is unique, the most prominent human being! In the same moment the hermit remembered that he would soon die - and this made him so sad that he began to cry … This boy will attain the perfect awakening, he who sees what is the most pure will set the wheel of the law in motion out of compassion for the salvation of the many; and his teaching will be spread afar."

Even as a young boy Siddhârtha is very wise, he is revered in the temple, and at school he proves to master all spoken and written languages. When travelling in company with adults, they lose him, and when they finally find him again, he is in deep meditation (Lalitavistâra 8, 10, 11). Even the baptism of Jesus in Jordan and his temptation in the desert have their direct parallels. Siddhârtha bathes in the river Nairanjanâ, then sits down under a tree and experiences an inner awakening that causes a great joy in heaven. "And Jesus, when he was baptized, went straightway out of the water: and lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting upon him: And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." (Matthew 3:16f)

After a long fast Siddhârtha is tempted by Mâra, the Evil One, who promises to make him a world emperor, if he renounces becoming a world saviour. Just as Jesus, the Buddha resists the temptation, and he is praised as a conqueror by gods and animals, just as angels came and ministered to Jesus.

When Siddhârtha begins his mission he is about 30 years old. His first disciples are cowherds, and like Jesus he has twelve chief disciples of whom Ânanda is the most beloved one. His two first disciples are brothers, and he finds them sitting under a fig tree. According to John 1:48, Jesus finds his disciple Nathanael under a fig tree.Just as John the Baptist sends out two of his disciples to ask whether Jesus is the awaited one, Pokkharasâti sends out Ambattha to learn whether samana Gotama really is the Buddha. The Buddha is transfigured in the sight of his disciples, so that his body radiates a dazzling light. And he sends out his disciples into the world to preach his message.

Also the message of the Buddha has some strong resemblances to the message of Jesus, such as "Look upon yourself rather than blame others". The Buddha accepts an invitation to eat in the house of a prostitute, for which he is criticized by the prominent people of the town. The Buddha preaches using parables. He uses a language of rich imagery such as light and darkness, sun and rain, fertility and infertility.

Here are some samples of his ethical teachings taken from Dhammapada, Majjhimanikâya, Udânavarga, and Saddharmapundarîka: "Think of others as of yourself. Conquer hatred with love, evil with good. If anyone would strike you with his hand, with a stick or cut you with a knife, you should restrain yourself and say no evil. It is easier to see the faults of another than those of oneself. The big cloud rains upon all, on high and low. The sun and the moon light up the whole world, both him that does good and him that does evil, both the high and the low." The Buddha possesses great powers and works miracles. He knows the thoughts and deeds of others in beforehand. He heals the sick, makes the blind see again, makes the deaf hear, the lame and the paralytic well again, and restores reason to the deranged, and casts out demons. Together with his disciple Mogallâna the Buddha feeds five hundred monks with bread baked from dough for one bread only. The Buddha walks on water, appears and disappears at will, walks through walls, and stills storms.

In Nidânakathâ, a noble virgin says, when seeing The Buddha: "Verily, that mother is blessed who has given birth to a man like this one" Luke (11:27) tells about a woman who praises the mother of Jesus, saying: "Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast suckled." Neither the Buddha nor Jesus acknowledges the praise, however.

In his teaching, the Buddha opposes traditional rigid laws, rebukes intolerance, dogmatism, ritualism, and priestly hypocrisy. He censors the unquestioning adherence to the Vedas and excoriates the bloody sacrifices of the Brahmins. Voluntarily he leads a life of utmost simplicity as a beggar - a life of renunciation - and mixes mostly with the lowly in society. The people call him prophet, master, lord. There is also a traitor, Devadatta, who tries to kill him but fails and meets a deplorable end. The Buddha turns a robber from his evil ways and makes him his devotee. The Buddha eats a last meal, dies, and attains nirvâna. His death is presaged by a great earthquake and a thunderstorm. After his death, the Buddha appears to his disciples...

[There is even a book written by Dr. Christian Lindtner called:] The Secret of Christ - The New Testament is the Buddha's Testament...He [Lindtner] says: "Christianity is, in all essentials, an imitation of Buddhism. It is the matter of a very skilful imitation but also a very remarkable, free, and distorted imitation...In principle, it is possible to trace almost every word and sentence back to Sanskrit. Rather early it became clear to me that almost every word and sentence in Matthew was supported by the original Sanskrit texts. Matthew rendered now the sense, now the external shape of the words, now the number of syllables of the words or sentences. If the two texts, the Sanskrit and the Greek, were read aloud at the same time at the same pace, it often appeared that the rhythms coincided. Some times either the one or the other, seldom all parts at the same time. He cut the originals in small pieces, glued them together again, often the one part on the other, combined boundlessly; he reversed the original order of sequence. Viewed as a whole, his gospel is a mosaic. Therefore, it must be our task to "restore" his text, so that the original reappears in the light of day. To understand Matthew means, first and foremost, to understand how he worked using a pair of scissors, glue, and an abacus." [The correct conclusion to draw is rather that God made the original Sanskrit texts resemble the Gospel of Matthew so as to show that every word of the Gospel is true and inspired by the Holy Spirit, for the Holy Spirit inspired the Sanskrit authors to say essentially the same things!]

---TRIKAYA: made by God to symbolize the Holy Trinity

http://www.class.uidaho.edu/ngier/trinity.htm: Let us now move to Buddhism, which in its Mahayana school, developed a Trinity of the dharmakaya, the cosmic body of the Buddha, the nirmanakaya, the dharmakaya as incarnate in Gautama Buddha, and the sambhogakaya, the dharmakaya as the intercessionary Bodhisattvas, performing roughly the same work as the Holy Spirit.[16] Buddhist scripture and art also portrays a Buddha of the Past (symbolizing all the previous incarnations of the Buddha), the Buddha of the Present (Gautama Buddha), and the Buddha of the Future, the Maitreya Buddha, the Buddhist Messiah who will come to redeem the world. (See image from Tibet's Potala Palace on left.) While not orthodox, a very popular Christian belief, beginning in medieval times, was a progressive Trinitarian view of history with successive Ages of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

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ANCIENT SUMERIA:

-EPIC OF GILGAMESH CHARACTER, DEUCALION THE GREEK, & OTHER MEN OF MANY DIFFERENT COUNTRIES: MADE BY GOD TO RESEMBLE NOAH, A TYPE OF CHRIST

http://www.religioustolerance.org/noah_com.htm: lists many of the amazing resemblances with the Epic of Gilgamesh Flood account

According to http://www.angelfire.com/fl/BriansHouse/noahsarkmeasured.html, there is an analogue to the story of Noah’s Ark among the writings of the Ancient Chinese (Fuxi), Egyptians (Toth), Indians (Satya), Babylonians, Native Americans, Persians, & more!

I first made this discovery about Deucalion recently when I came across the following God-inspired passage in Plato's Timaeus: "On one occasion, wishing to draw them on to speak of antiquity, he [Solon, made by God to resemble Solomon, a type of Christ, who too was the "wisest of men"?] began to tell about the most ancient things in our parts of the world- about Phoroneus, who is called 'the first man,' and about Niobe, and after the Deluge [i.e. Flood], of the survival of Deucalion and Pyrrha, and he traced the genealogy of their descendants and, reckoning up the dates, tried to compute how many years ago the events of which he was speaking happened." (22a-22b) Here we see some of the first things mentioned in Genesis which truly records "the most ancient things in our parts of the world": the first man and woman, the Flood, Noah, and the genealogies mentioned in Genesis Ch. 1-10! Egyptian mythology contains such parallels too, as I mention above; for instance, in the person Atum, modeled after Adam.

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html: The Deucalion Flood Story:

"Zeus sent a flood to destroy the men of the Bronze Age. Prometheus advised his son Deucalion to build a chest. All other men perished except for a few who escaped to high mountains. The mountains in Thessaly were parted, and all the world beyond the Isthmus and Peloponnese was overwhelmed. Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha (daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora) [Truly were Noah & his wife among the first humans, for Epimetheus was the first man according to some Greeks!], after floating in the chest for nine days and nights, landed on Parnassus. When the rains ceased, he sacrificed to Zeus, the God of Escape. At the bidding of Zeus, he threw stones over his head; they became men, and the stones which Pyrrha threw became women. That is why people are called laoi, from laas, "a stone." [Apollodorus, 1.7.2]

The first race of people was completely destroyed because they were exceedingly wicked. The fountains of the deep opened, the rain fell in torrents, and the rivers and seas rose to cover the earth, killing all of them. Deucalion survived due to his prudence and piety and linked the first and second race of men. Onto a great ark he loaded his wives and children and all animals. The animals came to him, and by God's help, remained friendly for the duration of the flood. The flood waters escaped down a chasm opened in Hierapolis. [Frazer, pp. 153-154]

An older version of the story told by Hellanicus has Deucalion's ark landing on Mount Othrys in Thessaly. Another account has him landing on a peak, probably Phouka, in Argolis, later called Nemea. [Gaster, p. 85]"

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ANCIENT EGYPT:

DON'T BE DECEIVED INTO THINKING THAT THE LIVES OF DAVID, SOLOMON, MOSES, ADAM, ETC. WERE BASED ON THE LIVES OF THESE EGYPTIAN PHARAOHS & GODS! THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE BECAUSE DAVID, SOLOMON, MOSES, ADAM, ETC. ALL RESEMBLED JESUS IN VERY UNCOMMON & NUMEROUS WAYS AS WELL, AS YOU CAN SEE FROM PART TWO OF THE WEBSITE. THEREFORE, IF YOU ARGUED THAT JESUS' LIFE AS WELL WAS A MYTH, YOU WOULD HAVE TO ARGUE THAT JESUS' LIFE WAS COPIED FROM ALL THESE DIFFERENT GODS & PHARAOHS AS WELL AS FROM MANY DIFFERENT FIGURES OF ANCIENT GREECE, CHINA, ROME, ETC. BY THE UNEDUCATED FISHERMEN WHO COMPOSED THE GOSPELS! IF THE LIVES OF THESE BIBLE FIGURES WERE NOT COPIED FROM THESE ANCIENT SOURCES, THE ONLY REASONABLE CONCLUSION TO DRAW IS THAT A SUPERNATURAL BEING WHICH GOVERNS HUMANS CREATED THESE RESEMBLANCES, EITHER TO CONFIRM THAT WHATEVER SAID ABOUT THE BIBLE FIGURES IS TRUE (IF GOD MADE THE RESEMBLANCES), OR TO DECEIVE YOU INTO NOT BELIEVING THE BIBLE (IF SATAN MADE THE RESEMBLANCES).

-EGYPTIAN GODS:

horus Horus anubis Anubis god1 Thoth god2 Ra god3 Isis atum Atum

Many of them carried crosses called "ankhs" in one of their hands. Be ready to be shocked when you read the following from http://www.egyptiangods.co.uk/ankh.htm:

The ankh (pronounced 'ahnk') was the Egyptian hieroglyphic character that stood for the word , which means life. Gods may carry it by the loop, or bear one in each hand crossed over their breast...The ankh appears frequently in Egyptian tomb paintings and other art; it often appears at the fingertips of a god or goddess in images that represent the deities of the afterlife conferring the gift of life on the dead person's mummy. The ankh symbol was often carried by Egyptians as an amulet, either alone, or in connection with two other hieroglyphs that mean "strength" and "health."[Jesus spoke the truth when He said "this is my blood, that of the new covenant, which for many is poured out for the forgiveness of sins" (Matt. 26:28) and "They who are strong have no need of a physician, but they who are ill...I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." (Mt. 9:12-13) Jesus' death on the cross brings life, strength, & health of the soul!]

---THE WORLD'S SIXTEEN CRUCIFIED SAVIORS, STORIES EXISTING IN TIMES BEFORE JESUS' CRUCIFIXION In 1875, a book was written by Kersey Graves called The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors. You can find it for free here: http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/kersey_graves/16/. He was not a Christian, and was actually trying to refute Christianity by showing how similar many ancient figures such as Krishna, Horus, Mithra, and Attis were to Jesus (you can see some of these remarkable similarities in Ch. XVI: Sixteen Saviors Crucified. However, if you keep in mind that there are such similarities in nations very far from one another which had limited contact with one another (ex. in Ancient America, which wasn't discovered until after AD 1000, the cross-bearing god Quetzalcoatl, discussed below), also in Nature (ex. in Sun, light, wind, water, man, dogs, etc., as discussed in Part One), in the Old Testament which was written before Jesus' Crucifixion (ex. Noah, Isaac, Joseph, Moses, etc., as discussed in Part Two), and even AFTER Jesus' Crucifixon (ex. Joan of Arc, Mozart, Lincoln & JFK, Statue of Liberty, Notre Dame & Twin Towers, as discussed later in this part), you can see that such similarities on the contrary were MADE BY GOD TO PROVE THAT EVERYTHING SAID BY & ABOUT JESUS IN THE BIBLE IS TRUE.

Tons of types of Christ are discussed in the following link to a book by an athiest who has done very extensive research from which he wrongly concludes that the Old Testament characters were modeled after Egyptian ones because he notices (correctly) that there are VERY NUMEROUS & VERY UNIQUE resemblances.

http://www.domainofman.com/book/cover.html

---ATUM: MADE BY GOD TO SYMBOLIZE ADAM, A TYPE OF CHRIST

(from: http://www.domainofman.com/book/chap-1.html)

In the mythology of ancient Egypt, the god who arrived first on the Earth was called Atum, signifying "Totality." Atum, as with Biblical Adam, was naked and required a civilizing influence. "The loincloth given to Atum served less to clothe him, in the strict sense of the word, than to permit him to manifest his royalty by means of a specific garment."a One cannot help but compare the royal undergarment of Atum with the fig leaf loincloth made for Biblical Adam. In the Egyptian creation story, the first goddess, Tefnut, was said to come forth out of Atum. One of her Mesopotamian nicknames was Nin-ti, meaning "Lady Life," or "The Lady (Who Makes) Live." S.N. Kramer states that ti is also the Sumerian word for "rib," therefore Nin-ti could variously be interpreted as "the Lady of the Rib."b In the Bible, Eve is of course formed from the rib of Adam.

The Hebrew name Adam means "a man, ruddy." Genesis 2:23 (KJV)c states: "she [Eve] was taken out of man." However, the Hebrew word translated in this particular verse as "man" is not Adam but iysh (376).d Like the Egyptian name Atum, this word iysh also conveys a sense of both unity and totality. It is commonly translated elsewhere in the Bible as "every, everyone," i.e., all men. There is an obvious phonic similarity between Adam and Atum. A true linguistic link is also not so unreasonable given that the names of all of the other major Egyptian deities have definite Semitic etymologies.

-EGYPTIAN PHARAOHS:

---THUTMOSE III: MADE BY GOD TO SYMBOLIZE KING DAVID, A TYPE OF CHRIST

From Wikipedia:
Widely considered a military genius by historians, he was an active expansionist ruler, sometimes called Egypt's greatest conqueror or "the Napoleon of Egypt."[12] He is recorded to have captured 350 cities during his rule and conquered much of the Near East from the Euphrates to Nubia during seventeen known military campaigns. [David was similarly successful: “Saul has slain his thousands; David, his tens of thousands!” (1 Samuel 18:7: symbolic of how Jesus whom David symbolizes will destroy very many people as there are very many who have not submitted to him); 1 Sam. 27:8-12; 2 Sam. 5, 8, 10. “The LORD gave David victory wherever he went.” (2 Sam. 8:6)]

From http://www.domainofman.com/ankhemmaat/david.html:
Not only are their achievements equivalent, but so are their very names. Thutmose is a compound name comprised of Thut (from Thoth, the Egyptian god of wisdom) and mose (an Egyptian title or suffix indicating son or rightful heir). In the ancient Egyptian language, words were written without vowels. Thut was, therefore, written as Twt. The ancient Hebrew language, although very different from Egyptian, originally derived its written structure from the Egyptian language.(2) As with Egyptian, the consonants were written and the vowels were vocalized only. Transliterating the Egyptian word twt into Hebrew, because of their similar alphabets, leads to dvd. Reinserting the vowels for pronunciation in Hebrew leads directly to David!(3) [This is not coincidental, for this is also true for all the other Egyptian parallels that I discuss in this part, including Atum, Amenhotep III, & Akhenaten, as I show when I discuss each of those persons!]

The sacredness attributed to Jerusalem by the Egyptians initially derived from the transport of the Barque of Amun(24) (a holy shrine carried on poles in much the same manner as the Israelite Ark of the Covenant) to the city by Thutmose III. The shrine was normally kept within the Holy of Holies in the Temple of Amun at Karnak, however Thutmose III had carried it with him into battle.(25) It remained with him when he took up residence in Jerusalem during the prolonged siege of Megiddo.

From http://www.egyptcx.netfirms.com/were_there_hebrew_pharaohs_egypt_2.htm:

Now we look at some startling information concerning the Ark of the Covenant. On reading Grant R. Jeffrey's book Appointment with Destiny I came across a curious reference to the dimensions of the stone chest in the King's Chamber in the Great Pyramid in Egypt. This stone chest found in the Great Pyramid King's chamber has the exact same measurement as the Ark of the Covenant. This Chest was the only object within the King's Chamber, as the Ark was the single sacred object within the Holy of Holies, in the Temple. Further, the cubit dimensions of the inner chamber of the Temple, the Holy of Holies, are precisely identical in size to the King's Chamber in the Pyramid and the same volume as the molten sea of water on the Temple Mount as prepared by King Solomon. Since the Pyramid was built and sealed long before the days of Moses, when he built the Ark and the Holy of Holies, and had remained sealed for over twenty-five centuries until the ninth century after Christ, there is no natural explanation for the phenomenon of both structures having identical volume measurements. [Indeed, for the only proper explanation is the supernatural one that God made this ark resemble the Ark of the Covenant to prove that part of the Bible!]

---AMENHOTEP III: MADE BY GOD TO SYMBOLIZE KING SOLOMON, A TYPE OF CHRIST
From http://members.aol.com/judeoroots/solomon.htm:

Amenhotep III, known in ancient times as the "King of Kings" and "Ruler of Ruler's,"(7) was a Pharaoh of Egypt's glorious 18th Dynasty. [TRULY IS JESUS “KING OF KINGS & LORD OF LORDS” (Revelation 19:16)] He, like Solomon, inherited a vast empire whose influence extended quite literally from the Nile to the Euphrates.

The administration and taxation system of Amenhotep with its 12 districts(27) is identical to that of Solomon as described in the Bible (1 Kings 4:2-7,27; 5:13; 9:23).

Amenhotep also dedicated himself to rediscovering the wisdom, mysteries and traditions of earlier Egyptian Dynasties.(28) A strong relationship has been established between the "Proverbs of Solomon" in the Bible and the "Maxims of Amenhotep III" found in Egypt.

In addition to the projects already mentioned, Amenhotep also built a completely new palace complex in Thebes. The new royal residence included all of the elements contained in the palace complex of Solomon which are described in the Bible (1 Kings 7:2-12),(30) namely:
-a house made almost entirely out of cedars of Lebanon (built for Amenhotep's Jubilee festival);(31)
-a colonnade (hall of columns) fronted by a portico (porch) and surrounded by a column-lined courtyard;(32)
-a throne room built with many wooden columns and whose floor was a painted lake scene (identical to the one crossed in wonder by the Queen of Sheba when she approached the throne of Solomon, as described in the Koran);(33)
-a separate palace built for Sitamun, "the daughter of Pharaoh;"(34)
a royal palace (consisting of his own residence, the residence of his Great Wife, Tiye, and a residence for the royal harem).(35)

Amenhotep, like Solomon, was relentless in his pursuit of women for his harem, especially beautiful foreign women of both royal and common backgrounds alike.(36) Amenhotep's harem included two princesses from Babylon,(37) two princesses from Syria, two princesses from Mitanni, and like Solomon's harem, it included a princess from each of the seven nations listed in 1 Kings 11:1.(38) As the mightiest king of the Middle East, Amenhotep did not send any of his own daughters to other kings in exchange, nor did any other Pharaoh of this dynasty (or likely any other throughout Egypt's history).(39) He specifically denied a request by the king of Babylon for an Egyptian wife.(40) Importantly, the Bible emphasizes Solomon's Egyptian bride, but does not mention that Solomon had any Hebrew wives.(41) Rehoboam, who is said to have succeeded Solomon, was the son of an Ammonite princess.

---AKHENATEN: MADE BY GOD TO SYMBOLIZE MOSES, A TYPE OF CHRIST
(from Wikipedia) “He is especially noted for attempting to compel the Egyptian population in the monotheistic worship of Aten. [As was Moses, who vehemently opposed the Israelites’ worship of the golden calf instead of God (Exodus 32), who I prove in Part One created the Sun to symbolize Himself. And Aten was the Egyptian SUN god!] Aten was the life-giving force of light. The full title of Akhenaten's god was The Rahorus who rejoices in the horizon, in his/her Name of the Light which is seen in the sun disc…This lengthy name was often shortened to Ra-Horus-Aten or just Aten in many texts.” [God presumably had this name devised to help build people’s faith that there are three persons in God: God the Father-God the Son (Jesus)-God the Holy Spirit. Horus (the SUN god who is often depicted carrying a CROSS in his hand & was said to be BORN OF A VIRGIN ON DECEMBER 25th as Jesus is believed to have been) bears very numerous & very uncommon similarities to Jesus.]

Many people, including Sigmund Freud in his book Moses & Monotheism and Ahmed Osman, a British Egyptologist born in Cairo, who is the author of Moses: the Pharaoh of Egypt & other books, argue that Moses was the same person as Akhenaten, because the similarities between them are VERY NUMEROUS & VERY UNIQUE! Of course, as with all the other people I mention in Part Three, these similarities cannot be coincidental, but the correct conclusion is that GOD ORDERED AKHENATEN’S LIFE TO PARALLEL MOSES’. According to one website, “It is even questionable whether the Old Testament authors could have even known about him at all. Because of Akhenaten's revolutionary religious ideas, his successors largely eliminated his memory by hammering and hacking his name and the record of his reign from monuments throughout Egypt.”

Unique resemblances discovered by Osman: http://www.dwij.org/forum/amarna/10_moses_akhenaten.htm
Amenhotep, who was later known as Akhenaten and Moses, was born in Year 12 of his father Amenhotep III, 1394 BC, in the summer royal palace in the border city of Zarw in northern Sinai. Zarw, modern Kantara East, was the center of the land of Goshen where the Israelites dwelt, and in the same location where the biblical Moses was born. But contrary to the biblical account, Moses was born inside the royal palace… Fearing for his safety, Tiye sent her son, the infant Amenhotep, by water to the safekeeping of her father's Israelite family outside the walls of Zarw. (Which was the origin of the biblical baby-in-the-bulrushes story.)

The persecution of the old gods, however, proved to be hateful to the majority of Egyptians, including the members of the army… Akhenaten agreed to abdicate and left Amarna with Pa-Nehesy, the high priest of Aten, and a few of his followers, to live in exile in the area of Sarabit El-Khadem in southern Sinai. [Parallels Moses fleeing Egypt for “a long time” (Exodus 2-4)]

The root of the name Moses is in the Egyptian word Mos which means "child." But this word also had a wider legal meaning—"the rightful son and heir." As it was punishable by death to mention Akhenaten's name after his banishment, a code name was established through which his followers could refer to him. Therefore they called him MOs, the son, to indicate that he was the legitimate son of Amenhotep III and the rightful heir to his father's throne. The ancient Egyptian language had no written vowels, although the vowels were pronounced. The written word meaning a child or son consisted of two consonants, m and s, It is therefore easy to see that the Hebrew word, Moses, was derived from the Egyptian, Mos. The final 's' of Moses derives from the Greek translation of the biblical name.

Akhenaten/Moses decided to leave his exile in Sinai and come back to Egypt, in order to reclaim his throne. In his rough Bedouin clothes, Akhenaten/Moses arrived with his allies at General Pa-Ramses' residence in the border city of Zarw, his birthplace, which had now been turned into a prison for his followers. [Parallels the enslavement of the Jews to the Egyptians (Exodus 5:9)] Akhenaten/Moses challenged Pa-Ramses' right to the throne [“At least as early as Eusebius of Caesarea,[58] Ramesses II (also spelled “Ramses”) was identified with the pharaoh of whom the Biblical figure Moses demanded his people be released from slavery” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramesses_II#Pharaoh_of_the_Exodus).] The general, taken by surprise, decided to call a meeting of the wise men of Egypt to decide between them. [as Pharaoh summons “the wise men and the sorcerers” before Moses. (Ex. 7:11)] At the gathering, Akhenaten/Moses produced his scepter of royal power [as Moses produces a rod when performing the first of his miracles (Ex. 7:9)], which he had taken with him to exile, and performed secret rituals that only the king could have had knowledge of.
General Pa-Ramses ascended to the Egyptain throne as Ramses I, the first Pharoah of the 19th dynasty. Left with no choice but to flee from Egypt with his followers—the Israelites and Egyptians who embraced the Atenist faith—Akhenaten/Moses began the Exodus toward the Sinai via the marshy area to the south of Zarw and north of Lake Temsah, as this watery route would hinder the pursuit of Egyptian chariots.

-LAMB & HOG SACRIFICED IN EGYPT, MADE BY GOD TO RESEMBLE THE PASSOVER LAMB, A TYPE OF CHRIST

"To Dionysus [a symbol of God, as shown below] on the eve of his feast, every Egyptian sacrifices a hog before the door of his house." (Herodotus's History 2.48) Truly did every Jew in Egypt have to sacrifice a lamb and put its blood on his doorpost in order to avoid being destroyed by God, and celebrate this feast ever after by slaying a lamb at this time of the year, to symbolize Jesus the "Lamb of God" (John 1:29) being sacrificed to God the Father on the day of Passover and thereby SAVING FROM DESTRUCTION THOSE WHO ARE COVERED BY HIS BLOOD BY HAVING FAITH IN HIM.

Zeus (symbol of God) was said to have flayed a ram (an adult male LAMB), cut off its head, and "cover himself with the fleece." Then, IN EGYPT "UPON ONE DAY IN THE YEAR...AT THE FESTIVAL OF ZEUS, they SLAY A SINGLE RAM, and stripping off the fleece, cover with it the statue of that god, as he once covered himself, and then bring up to the statue of Zeus an image of HERACLES (also called Hercules, another symbol of God, as shown below)." (Herodotus's History 2.42) So did the Jews have an annual festival for God on the day of Passover to commemorate the day when the Passover Lamb by being slain IN EGYPT prevented God from destroying them, and so did God the Son the "Lamb of God" present himself as a sacrifice to God the Father!

-The Three Pyramids of Giza, including THE GREAT PYRAMID OF GIZA in Egypt [~2560 BC-present], & the GREAT SPHINX

sphinx Great Sphinx pyramid The Three Pyramids of Giza

-An entire book was written by a man named Dr. Capt called Stonehenge and Druidism - Did a Divine Hand guide the building of Stonehenge? which like me argues that God guided the building of Stonehenge, given the superhuman knowledge embedded in it. This man also wrote a book called The Great Pyramid Decoded: God's Stone Witness (pictured above) which argues the same point about the Great Pyramid of Giza!

-(from http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/great.htm:) Jeremiah 32:20, "God has set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even unto this day, and in Israel, and among other men; and have made Yourself a Name, as at this day." [Although the context of that verse refers to the "signs and wonders" at the time that Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt, it could also be referring to the Pyramid, as the next verse I quote from Isaiah implies. That there were signs there in the past points to the possibility that there are signs still there today.] ... Isaiah 19:19-20 says,"In THAT DAY there will be an ALTAR to the LORD in the MIDST of the land of Egypt, and a PILLAR at the BORDER thereof to the LORD. And IT shall be a SIGN and a WITNESS to the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry to the LORD because of the oppressors, and He shall send them a Savior, and a Great One and He shall deliver them."

The Great Pyramid will be standing "in that day," when the Seventh Trumpet announces the great and dreadful day of the Lord and two prophets go forth to introduce the parousia of Israel's Savior Who will deliver them according to their faith. The word "IT" conveys the idea that the "altar" and "pillar" are one and the same object.

The Great Pyramid is located at Giza, which means "border," on the border of Upper and Lower Egypt, and stands at the geographical center or MIDST of Egypt, defining the segment of a circle around the Nile Delta subtended by diagonal lines extending northwest and northeast.
The Pyramid is certainly a "pillar" as the text requires, and also an "altar" in the sense of being a witness to the Lord. Joshua 22:26-27 "Let us now prepare to build us an ALTAR, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice: But that it may be a WITNESS between us, and you, and our generations after us. . ."

The gematria of Isaiah 19:19-20: also identifies the Great Pyramid as God's special revelation. Gematria is the science of finding meaning in the numerical value of words and was used by Ivan Panin and others to demonstrate the Supernatural inspiration of Holy writ. Having no numerals, the Hebrews designated the letters of their alphabet with a numerical value. Thus every word has the numerical value of the sum of the value of its letters. The sum of the value of all Hebrew characters in the these verses is 5449, the height in inches of the Great Pyramid!

-(from http://www.anchorstone.com/content/view/231/74/:) "The average height of Earth's landmass, above sea level, as can be measured and calculated by modern-day satellite technology is 5,449". Well, what do you know, this is the vertical height of the Pyramid...Clearly whoever designed and built the structure had special insight concerning not only engineering but astronomy, mathematics, topography, geography, and theology...The word is a combination of two Greek words, "pyra" - meaning fire, light, or visible and "midos" - meaning measures. So, quite literally we could call the Pyramid the, "Visible Measures Monument." "

-http://www.bible411.com/newsletters/nb200110.htm, http://www.anchorstone.com/content/view/231/74/, http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/great.htm, http://www.hunkler.com/pyramids/pyramid_symbolism.html, http://www.greatpyramid.org/aip/gr-pyr1.htm: tons of facts, symbolized in the pyramid, that no man knew at the time of the pyramid's construction (ex. pi, from the perimeter or "circumference" of the pyramid's square base divided by twice the pyramid's height, which can be thought of as the diameter of a circle; how to "square the circle" or make the perimeter of a square equal the circumference of a circle, the speed of light? Earth's volume & mass?, and much more)="In Christ are hidden all the treasures of wisdom & knowledge." (Colossians 2:3)

-The Great Pyramid was the largest building in the world for 3,800 years=God is the largest [i.e. fills the most space] being in the world

-http://www.ask-aladdin.com/pyramid.htm: as Twin Tower #2 was only about 6 ft. shorter than Twin Tower #1, and the 3rd & 7th World Trade Center Towers (candidates for symbols of the Holy Spirit) less than 1/2 the size of the other two; so is the 2nd Giza Pyramid shorter than the 1st by only about 9 ft (454 vs. 445 ft), and so is the 3rd less than 1/2 the size of the other two (about 203 ft.)

-the three Pyramids of Giza are more famous than any of the more than 93 pyramids (http://www.ask-aladdin.com/pyramid.htm), apparently all dedicated to Pharaohs (kings thought to be like gods) to show that the Holy Trinity is and ever will be more famous & exalted than any other kings of this world

-Triangular faces symbolic of the Holy Trinity?

-the Egyptians "commonly call the pyramids after Philitis [contains the Greek word "philia" which means "love], a shepherd who at that time fed his flocks about the place." (Herodotus History 2.128) How fitting, for the construction of these pyramids was guided by the LORD "our shepherd" (Psalm 23, John 10), and "God is love." (1 John)

-Evidence that Menkaure's pyramid is a symbol of one of the three persons of God, though not any specific one: "Mycerinus [Greek name for Menkaure] son of Cheops [Greek for Khufu] had "justice in the decision of causes [which] was beyond that of all the former kings. The Egyptians praise him in this respect more highly than any of their other monarchs." His only child died, which he entombed in a "sacred cow" with a representation of the sun between its horns. He himself was told by an oracle, which was fulfilled, that he would die seven years (the number in the Bible signifying completion) after the proclamation of the oracle. Mycerinus remarks: "I, who am pious, am to die so soon!" (Herodotus History 129-33) Truly is God more just than any other ruler (for He will "reward each according to His works," paying a richer reward to he who glorifies God more and greater punishment to he who dishonors God more), truly did He lose "His only begotten Son" who is symbolized by the Sun and the "sacred cow" (Leviticus 19), and truly did God die young when He became incarnate as Jesus though He was pious & sinless.

-Evidence that the Sphinx & Khafre's pyramid are symbols of one of the three persons of God: Khafre's name means "appearing like Ra." "The pharaohs were believed to be the incarnations of the god Horus [the SUN god] in life [2], and of Osiris in death." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharaoh)

-as with other symbols of the Trinity (ex. water's composition: hydrogen-hydrogen-oxygen, the 3 conic sections: parabola-hyperbola-ellipse, nipple-nipple-belly button, upper arm-lower arm-hand, main parts of the brain: cerebrum-cerebellum-medulla), two members look more similar to one another than the third (in this case, Khufu-Khafre-Menkaure, the former two of which are much more similar in size)

-(from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Pyramids:) "While it is generally agreed that pyramids were burial monuments, there is continued disagreement on the particular theological principles that might have given rise to them. One theory is that they were designed as a type of "resurrection machine."[6]
The Egyptians believed the dark area of the night sky around which the stars appear to revolve was the physical gateway into the heavens. One of the narrow shafts that extends from the main burial chamber through the entire body of the Great Pyramid points directly towards the center of this part of the sky. This suggests the pyramid may have been designed to serve as a means to magically launch the deceased pharaoh's soul directly into the abode of the gods."[Truly was Jesus resurrected and truly did He then ascend into heaven, as is recorded in Acts of the Apostles Ch.1, and dwells there still today!]

-The Great Sphinx has the body of a lion as Jesus is called a lion (Revelation 5:5) and is generally thought to represent Khafre the second of the three persons represented by the three pyramids as Jesus is the second person of the Trinity

-Therefore, the pyramids' construction was guided by God without the builders' knowledge, as I later show the Parthenon, Notre Dame & the Twin Towers, and the Colossus of Rhodes & the Statue of Liberty were!

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ANCIENT AMERICA (before Christopher Columbus's discovery of America; thus, the Gospel story was not copied from Quetzalcoatl's!!!!!!):

QUETZALCOATL: (some of the very numerous & uncommon parallels with Jesus Christ which are widely considered authentic are in bold; there are additionally many more uncommon similarities not mentioned here which may or may not have been invented)

in the Codex Borgia, a manuscript dated from the time before Christopher Columbus discovered America, there are pictures of Quetzalcoatl "with the impression of nails in both his hands & feet" (http://books.google.com/books?id=ew0aJKGn8g8C&pg=PA150&lpg=PA150&dq=borgia+codex+quetzalcoatl+crucified&source=bl&ots=eaDGqOZKye&sig=fey4kxHu-szmOf0xVDP_ROQyhm4&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result)

(http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/images/18400.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/secret_teachings_of_all_ages/cross_and_the_crucifixion.htm&h=358&w=400&sz=93&hl=en&start=22&um=1&usg=__NypHyYgwshX6s0TpG1FsRG3KjfI=&tbnid=e-6_iVI1pnMxIM:&tbnh=111&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dquetzalcoatl%2Bcross%26start%3D20%26ndsp%3D20%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den%26sa%3DN) In the Codex Borgianus, (pp. 4, 72, 73, 75,) the Mexican God is represented crucified and nailed to the cross, and in another place hanging to it, with a cross in his hands. And in one instance, where the figure is not merely outlined, the cross is red, the clothes are coloured, and the face and hands quite black...Similar crosses were placed over the eyes of those initiated into their Mysteries. ["Our old man was crucified with him [Christ], that the body of sin might be annulled." (Romans 6:6)]When Cortez arrived in Mexico, he brought with him the cross. Recognizing this, the natives believed that he was Quetzalcoatl returned, for the latter had promised to come back in the infinite future and redeem his people.

cross Even the surrounding persons have crosses on their heads!

(http://www.jefflindsay.com/bme9.shtml) Although Quetzalcoatl's origin is clouded in obscurity, the legends, the few pre-Columbian writings extant today, and the early post-Conquest writings contain an abundance of material on this ancient and revered god. These accounts are contradictory and vary widely both on the god's attributes and the details of how he was worshiped, undoubtedly due to a millennium of digressions from the original concept from the end of the Book of Mormon to the time of the Conquest. However, through all this maze, we find that the Mesoamericans consistently endow Quetzalcoatl with many Christlike attributes, some of which are listed below:
--Quetzalcoatl was the creator of life. [1]
--Quetzalcoatl taught virtue. [2]
--Quetzalcoatl was the greatest Lord of all. [3]
--Quetzalcoatl had a "long beard and the features of a white man." [4]
--The Mesoamericans believed Quetzalcoatl would return. [5]
References cited above by Hunt: 1. Roberta H. Markman and Peter Markman, The Flayed God: The Mesoamerican Mythological Tradition (San Francisco: Harper, 1992), 32; see also Delia Goetz and Sylvanus G. Morley, trans., Popol Vuh (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1975), p. 83. 2. Charles Gallenkamp, The Riddle and Rediscovery of a Lost Civilization: Maya, 3d ed. (New York: Penguin, 1987), p. 166. 3. David Carrasco, Quetzalcoatl and the Irony of Empire (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992), p. 43. 4. T. A. Willard, Kukulcan: The Bearded Conqueror (Los Angeles: Murray and Gee, 1941), p. 159. 5. Bernal Diaz, The Conquest of New Spain, trans. J. M. Cohen (London: Penguin, 1963); see also Carrasco, Quetzalcoatl and the Irony of Empire, p. 48; and Brian M. Fagan, Kingdoms of Gold: Kingdoms of Jade (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1991), p. 37; and Adrian Recinos and Delia Goetz, The Annals of the Cakchizuels (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma, 1953), p. 40.

(http://text.farmsresearch.com/publications/jbms/?vol=11&num=1&id=298)
To some extent, the records fuse Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl's [a Mesoamerican king, as Jesus is the "king of kings & lord of lords" (Revelation 19:16)] life and deeds with those of his god, Quetzalcoatl. Nicholson comments on this fusion that "a certain degree of 'mythification' of Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl almost certainly occurred, . . . as well as some assimilation to the deity whose particular protagonist he was credited with being."31 Therefore, it is extremely important for researchers to look at the surrounding content and context of these various colonial manuscripts when determining which portion of the account is referring to the deity Quetzalcoatl and which is giving a historical narrative of the famed culture hero Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl… The worship of Quetzalcoatl underwent a resurgence with the birth of Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl. As a result, a clear-cut distinction cannot be drawn between the ruler and the god, as noted above. The Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl saga includes stories of drunkenness, fornication, and murder.35 Nevertheless, this ruler was regarded as a deity by his followers, as was true of some kings in Mesoamerica. Therefore, we face a smoky screen of mythological, historical, and Christian influence throughout these legends that tie mortal Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl to the god Quetzalcoatl.

We will begin with the "virgin birth" myth. There is no account in the pre- or post-conquest texts that says Quetzalcoatl or the Maize God experienced a miraculous virgin birth. However, Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl's illustrious life began with his "virgin birth," which story is garnished with a biblical overlay throughout but obviously mixed with historical places and events. A strong supernaturalistic flavor pervades the whole account, especially regarding this culture hero's mother, Chimalman, who received an annunciation from a heavenly messenger sent down by the creator god…32

The third element has to do with the planet Venus. Toward the end of Mesoamerican history, Quetzalcoatl is shown in pre-Columbian pictorial codices as associated with this planet. Quetzalcoatl himself is not linked to Venus in any written text, yet the history of Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl, as recorded in colonial literature, shows this ruler's association with Venus. David Carrasco has noted that "a Topiltzin-Morning Star cult was celebrated in Cholula, suggesting that a fusion of the culture hero and deity Ehécatl [an aspect of Quetzalcoatl] and Morning Star developed."36 These legends state that upon Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl's death and cremation, he rose to heaven and became the Morning Star.37 This is how this culture hero became resurrected, deified, and connected to Venus. [Similarly, Christ the God of Love's (as Venus or her Greek counterpart Aphrodite is the goddess of love) rising into heaven from the Earth is symbolized by the Sun rising every morning. Aeneas, who is a type of the Antichrist as I show clearly in Part Three, was the son of Venus, and thus he too was associated with Venus!]

quetz Quetzalcoatl devouring man; God the Son will "break them [the heathen] with a rod of iron" (Psalm 2:9)

Fourth, a more prominent symbol of Quetzalcoatl is the Feathered Serpent. As we shall see, this figure also ties into the Venus ideology. The Feathered Serpent may exist in artistic motifs as early as the Olmec civilization, whose culture some Latter-day Saints equate with the Jaredites. A rock sculpture, Monument 19 from La Venta, Tabasco (circa 900—400 BC), portrays a rattlesnake with an avian beak and feather crest (see fig. 9). Two quetzal birds are also carved on this Olmec monument from the Middle Formative period…A very graphic illustration of Quetzalcoatl in his animal guise as the Feathered Serpent appears in the Codex Telleriano-Remensis.

(http://www.jefflindsay.com/bme9.shtml) Hunt suggests that this symbol may be related to the Old Testament story of the brass serpent that Moses made, which allowed the Israelites to be healed from the venomous bites they had received from fiery serpents among them (Numbers 21:6-9, where these serpents were apparently encountered near the Arava or Arabah Valley between Sinai and modern Israel). The Book of Mormon indicates that it was "fiery flying serpents" in 1 Nephi 17:41, a statement that seems to be unsupported in Biblical text (see also Alma 33:19-21). However, Isaiah's mention of "fiery flying serpents" in Isaiah 14:29 and 30:6 suggests that this may have been what the Israelites encountered (though Isaiah's references to such creatures is not in the context of the Exodus). More interestingly, numerous extra-Biblical texts point to an early tradition that the serpents that plagued the Israelites were "flying" serpents. Quoting from Hunt again (p. 128-129):
This usage of the term flying in association with Moses' brazen serpent is indirectly supported by numerous works of modern scholars. For example, Karen Joines notes in [his] exhaustive study of this subject that to the Hebrew word for serpent used in Numbers "may be attributed wings." [6] . . . Henry also suggests that the serpents "flew in their faces and poisoned them." [7]
In addition, there are isolated accounts of winged serpents in this area of the desert. Joines quotes Herodotus as believing "this desert to be a haven for flying serpents." [8] Bush, while he does not give the concept credence, does agree that "the popular idea has for some cause invested these serpents with wings . . . [and] it is supposed that the epithet flying was given from their power of leaping to a considerable distance in passing from tree to tree." [9] Perhaps most significant, however, is the analysis by Auerbach: the serpent "was not simply placed upon a pole; this would be sufficiently designated by makkel or simply 'es. Rather, it was connected with the 'flagstaff.' " [10] In this manner, the serpent would appear as a flag, as though it were flying. [11] If Moses did indeed attach his brass serpent outstretched and perpendicular to his pole, it would comply fully with the description "fiery flying serpent."

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ANCIENT GREECE:

HOMER’S ILIAD AND ODYSSEY

-“THE EPIC POETS [Homer & Virgil, as well as the tragic & philosopher poets Aeschylus-Sophocles-Euripides, Plato, & Shakespeare], ALL THE GOOD ONES, HAVE THEIR EXCELLENCE, NOT FROM ART, BUT ARE INSPIRED, POSSESSED…THEY ARE SEIZED WITH BACCHIC TRANSPORT…THE DEITY [the demon Bacchus/Dionysus] HAS BEREFT THEM OF THEIR SENSES, AND USES THEM AS MINISTERS…IN ORDER THAT WE LISTENERS MAY KNOW THAT IT IS NOT THEY WHO UTTER THESE PRECIOUS REVELATIONS WHILE THEIR MIND IS NOT WITHIN THEM, BUT THAT IT IS GOD HIMSELF WHO SPEAKS.” (Plato’s Ion, 533e-534d)

"There continues to be debate between scholars as to whether or not Homer was the true and only writer of his works." http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/aegean/literature/homer.html Of course, because a demon[s] composed his works, as I will now show. That is why Homer's name means "hostage," because he was taken captive by one or more demons.

"The study of Homer was required of all Greek students in antiquity, and his heroes were worshiped in many parts of Greece." http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0858649.html Even in ancient times, it was true that "the whole world lies in the power of the Evil One." (1 John 5:19)

All the major heroes of these two epics are types of AntiChrist, including Achilles-Odysseus-Aeneas, Hector, Chryses, Agamemnon “the most lordly of men,” “godlike Nestor”?, “godlike Paris?” (who is also called Alexander, the same name given to Alexander the Great another type of AntiChrist!), Ajax the "son of Telamon [a man] and seed of Zeus [a god]", Phoinix who calls Achilles his "son" in Book 9 (also the name of a bird which, like Jesus, comes back to life and was held as sacred to the Egyptians [Herodotus's History 2.73]!), Diomedes?, Sarpedon the son of Zeus who was “dearest” to Him and who causes Zeus to weep profusely when Patroclus kills him in Iliad XVI, Patroclus, Priam, Neoptolemos, Alkinoos, Athena, Apollo, and Zeus. It is extremely important to note that Virgil in the Aeneid makes Aeneas resemble Odysseus & Achilles to the highest degree. God had Virgil do this, presumably without Virgil knowing so, to show that Achilles, Odysseus, and Aeneas are all types of AntiChrist. Therefore, consider all three of these heroes together while I try to help you see that all three are types of AntiChrist.

One way God hints that all these people are types of God the Son and God the Father is that He has Homer give many of these men the same epithets, including “godlike,” “great-hearted,” “the lord of men,” “equal of Zeus in counsel (the Greek word metis can also mean “wisdom”)” (Hector in 7.47, Priam in 7.366, Odysseus in 10.37), and “the shepherd of the people” (Agamemnon in 24.654, Hector in 15.262); and by comparing many of them especially to the lion, for Jesus is called “the Lion of Judah” (Revelation 5), as He is also called the “Good Shepherd” (Psalm 23:1, John 10). Hector is compared to a “lion” on at least five different pages. (Lattimore’s Iliad, pg. 289, 326, 352) Many of these epithets can justly be applied to very few men, especially the one about being the “equal of Zeus [the supreme god] in wisdom”!

-ACHILLES
Achilles was descended from a mortal and Thetis, an immortal. Truly was Jesus both the “son of man” and “son of God,” as He claimed!

Odysseus says of him that he is “far the greatest of the Achaians,” and that “no man before has been more blessed than you, nor ever will be. Before, when you were alive, we Argives honored you as we did the gods, and now in this place you have great authority over the dead.” (Ody. XI.478,483-86) Achilles is called “blameless,” though only Christ is truly without blame. (Odyssey XXIV.17)
Truly is Jesus greater than all humans in power and virtue, and so is He honored as God!

The reason God made Homer have Achilles sit out from battle in Books I-XVII of the Iliad was to show that the Greeks could not defeat their enemies without his help. Similarly, one cannot succeed at winning any battle, including against sin, unless Jesus wills one’s success.

“Achilles, we know, was much handsomer than Patroclus or any of the heroes.” (Plato’s Symposium 180a) The following symbols of Jesus are also described as miraculously handsome: King David in 1 Samuel 16 (look at the “David” of Michelangelo, another symbol of Jesus), the Parthenon, Alexander the Great, the Colossus of Rhodes, Caesar Augustus, Notre Dame, and the Statue of Liberty. I also saw breathtakingly beautiful pictures of other symbols of Jesus such as Julius Caesar and Isaac Newton. Ironically, Socrates, another symbol of Jesus, is described as the ugliest looking of men, though with the most beautiful of souls! Apparently, God symbolizes by these facts that Jesus’ body perhaps looked ugly when he came to Earth, but that He the Messiah King will appear “fairer than the sons of men” when He rules in the New Jerusalem as Augustus and Caesar ruled in Rome! (Psalm 45:1-2)

Achilles is said to be “the greatest of all the Danaans for stature” as well as “for beauty.” (Odyssey XI:469, XXIV:17-19) According to an article on giants on Wikipedia.com: “Herodotus in Book 1, Chapter 68, describes how the Spartans uncovered in Tegea the body of Orestes which was seven cubits long -- around 10 feet. In his book The Comparison of Romulus with Theseus Plutarch describes how the Athenians uncovered the body of Theseus, which was of more than ordinary size. The kneecaps of Ajax were exactly the size of a discus for the boy's pentathlon, wrote Pausanias. A boy's discus was about twelve centimeters in diameter, while a normal adult patella is around five centimeters, suggesting Ajax may have been around 14 feet (~4.3 meters) tall.” And apparently all the buildings which are types of Christ (including the Pyramid of Khufu, the Colossus of Rhodes, Twin Tower #2, the Empire State Building, and the Statue of Liberty) are all gargantuan. This fact could have numerous meanings: Jesus is gargantuan insofar as He invisibly fills all space since He is omnipresent, for Jesus says that He exists wherever two or more people gather in His name; Jesus might possess a gargantuan body in the New Jerusalem, which would allow for all people to continually behold and hear Him; and Jesus has more power than any mere human.

Achilles returns into battle to die only after Patroclus dies in order to save his body from destruction and avenge his death. In Plato’s Symposium, which I will later show was authored by God, Achilles is mentioned along with Alcestis and someone who died for another person out of love. He “died not only for his friend, but to be with his friend in death.” (Symp. 179e) SO DID JESUS DIE TO SAVE HIS PEOPLE AND TO BE WITH THEM IN THE NEW JERUSALEM AFTER DEATH!

As predicted by Hector with his dying breath, Achilles was thereafter killed by Paris—either by an arrow (to the heel according to Statius), or in an older version by a knife to the back while visiting Polyxena, a princess of Troy. In some versions, the [SUN] god Apollo guided Paris' arrow. [Truly did Jesus the Son of God use Satan (who possessed Judas, Jesus’ betrayer, according to John 13) to “bruise His heel” (Gen. 3:15, the first prophecy of Jesus in the Bible) by piercing Him on the cross, as the wound to Achilles’ heel pierced and thereby killed Achilles.]

Achilles pierced in heel

Achilles died in Troy (Ody. XXIV.37), as did Hector, Sarpedon, and Patroclus, other types of Christ. Since Christ was killed in Jerusalem, this fact suggests that Troy was a type of Jerusalem. This hypothesis is supported by the fact that God made The First Crusade of 1096-99 symbolic of the sack of Troy. I discuss this resemblance at greater length in my discussion of the Aeneid.

After Achilles died, his body was “anointed” and mourned “for ten and seven days,” and then “burned in the clothing of gods” with “sheep and cattle” slaughtered all around his body. (Ody. XXIV:43,63-68) Truly did Jesus the Lamb of God die after thirty-three and a half years (“ten and seven” times two, rounded off to the nearest whole number!) and have no final resting place for his body, for it rose from the dead! Other cremated types of Christ include Patroclus, Hector, and Nelson Rockefeller, one of the two men primarily responsible for the construction of the Twin Towers.

Achilles' name can be analyzed as a combination of –?P?@?H? (akhos) "grief" and 8?"a`?H? (Laos) "a people, tribe, nation, etc." In other words, Achilles is an embodiment of the grief of the people. So do people from all over the world mourn Jesus’ death!

Post-Homeric literature explores a homosexual interpretation of the love between Achilles and Patroclus. By the fifth and fourth centuries, the deep — and arguably ambiguous — friendship portrayed in Homer blossomed into an unequivocal love affair in the works of Aeschylus, Plato, and Aeschines, and seems to have inspired the enigmatic verses in Lycophron's third century Alexandra that claim Achilles slew Troilus in a matter of unrequited love. [So do the Jesus and his symbols King David and Socrates have what appear to be (though are not) homosexual relationships with John “the one whom Jesus loved [the most],” Jonathan (1 Samuel), and Alcibiades (Plato’s Symposium) respectively.]

The kings of the Epirus claimed to be descended from Achilles through his son, Neoptolemus. Alexander the Great, son of the Epiran princess Olympias, could therefore also claim this descent, and in many ways strove to be like his great ancestor; he is said to have visited his tomb while passing Troy. [As Jesus was descended from King David and Solomon, so was Alexander the Great descended from Achilles apparently.]

-HECTOR and PRIAM
“No one could have stood up against him, and stopped him, except the gods, when he burst in the gates; and his eyes flashed fire.” (Iliad XII.465-466) Truly can no one stand up against omnipotent Jesus, as was true of other types of Christ including King David, Cyrus the Great, and Alexander the Great; and truly were the eyes of the glorified Jesus are described in Revelation 1:14 “as a flame of fire.” Do you know many other people whose eyes look like they’re on fire?!

“Hector was loved by the gods best of all mortals in Ilion.” (24.66) Achilles calls Hector “the greatest man grown in this place.” (21.279) At Iliad 6.75, Helenus calls Hector and Aeneas the best among the Trojans at war and
plotting. So is Jesus best at war, for He because of His omnipotence defeats all
His foes! And so is He the best at plotting, for “in Christ are hidden all the
treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” (Colossians 2:3)]

Helen says of Hector: “there was no other in all the wide Troad [i.e. out of thousands of people!] who was kind to me, and my friend; all others shrank when they saw me.” (24.774-75) Jesus is always kind to those whom He saves! He is always making everything work for the good of such people! (Romans 8:28) When Hector takes up “his dear son” and “tossed him about in his arms, and kissed him” (6.473-74), God symbolizes the joy Jesus takes in his “sons” (John 1), who come to share His nature when they are “born again of water and the [Holy] Spirit.” (John 3) What amazing love!

Achilles’ killing of Hector by “piercing” him to death with a spear in Book 22 of the Iliad is
symbolic of the fact that Jesus used other humans as tools to cause other humans to
pierce Him in AD 33 (as Caesar another type of the Antichrist was killed in 44 BC), for Jesus said
in John 10:18: “No man taketh it [His life] from me, but I lay it down of
myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.”

The book ends with Hector’s burial to show how central Jesus is to the whole book! The last
line- “Such was the burial of Hector, breaker of horses”- symbolizes how Jesus truly does
conquer and tame the hearts of His people! The Greek word for “breaker,” ippodamaio,
contains the verb damazo, which means to tame, to conquer, or to put a yoke on. Jesus too
puts a “yoke” on His people, for He urges His people to put His yoke on them when He says
“my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” (Matt. 11:30) Horses like humans are very
intelligent animals!

Hector reappears to other humans after he died, just as Patroclus does, when he appears to Aeneas in Book 2 of the Aeneid. Truly did Jesus reappear to other humans with whom He was intimate after his human body had died!

Hector is a symbol also of all Christians for whom Jesus pays the ransom. This is evident
from Book 24 of the Iliad, in which “Priam the godlike” brings a great “ransom” to Achilles
in order to have the dead body of Hector returned to him. (24.555) This scene metaphorically
portrays God the Son (Priam) giving a ransom to God the Father (Achilles) for “dead”
humans (Hector). Before Christians are “born again” (John 3) with Christ’s nature, we are
“dead” insofar as the “good” nature which God originally gave Adam the first human is dead
in us. God makes this clear in Genesis 2 when He says to Adam: “On the day on which you
eat of that fruit (the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil), you shall surely die.”
Because Adam’s body does not die the day he eats of that fruit, God must mean that Adam
died a “spiritual death.” It is fitting that Hector be a symbol of both Christ and of humans,
for any Christian can say with Paul: “It is not I who live but Christ who lives in me.” God
makes clear that my interpretation of this scene is correct by having the word “ransom”
mentioned over five times; by having Priam called “the godlike” at least ten times in Book 24
alone; and by having Priam be an image of Achilles as God the Son is an image of God the
Father, by having both Achilles and Priam said to have a “heart of iron” (24.205, 24.521),
and by having Achilles described “like an outright vision of the gods.” (24.630) Priam’s
voluntarily rolling in dung upon hearing the fate of Hector (24.163) is symbolic of the great
agony Jesus felt at our spiritual deaths, and His intense desire to pay the ransom for us.

-CHRYSES
This man is a “priest of Apollo” who comes to Agamemnon, a type of God the Father (as
well as of God the Son), in order to “ransom back his daughter, carrying gifts beyond count.
(Iliad 1.11-13) God has him mentioned on the very first page of the Iliad! His daughter is named “Chyrseis,” for the same reason that Hector is a symbol both of Christ and of man who is made in His image. This scene is therefore symbolic of the fact that Christ, a priest of God the Father (Psalm 110, Hebrews), sought to pay the ransom to God the Father so that He could once again possess His creations. For, Christ is called “The Everlasting Father” (Isaiah 9:6), insofar as He was involved with God the Father and the Holy Spirit in creating man. (Genesis 1:26: “And God said, Let us make man in our image.”) Apollo is here a symbol of God the Father, for Apollo is the god of the Sun, and “the LORD God is a sun and shield.” (Psalm 84) The Sun is especially symbolic of God the Son, but it is also symbolic of God the Father, since God the Father and God the Son share much in common.

-PATROCLUS
Patroclus is a symbol of John the disciple whom Jesus loved most of all, of all Christians for whom Jesus symbolized by Achilles lays down his life (as is Hector and Chryseis) who are in Paul's words the "bondsman" or "slave" of Jesus as Patroclus is the "henchman" of Achilles (Iliad 23.90), and of Jesus Himself. It is fitting for him to be a symbol of all these people because all Christians can truly say with Paul “It not I who live, but Christ who lives in me.” JESUS LOVES HIS PEOPLE AS MUCH AS ACHILLES LOVED PATROCLUS!!!!!!!!

Patroclus’s name means “glory of the Father,” for he is a type of Antichrist about whom God the Father said: “this is My Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

Achilles, a type of Antichrist and also a type of God the Father insofar as God the Son and God the Father possess the same Divine Nature, mourns for Patroclus “as a father mourns as he burns the bones of his son,” (Iliad 23.223.) So did God the Father mourn for the death of God the Son, for He “was a constant source of delight to Him.” (Proverbs 8) The extreme grief that God the Father had for the death of God the Son is portrayed also in the Iliad XVI.459-60, when Zeus “wept tears of blood for his beloved son” Sarpedon at the time when Patroclus, a type of the Antichrist, killed Sarpedon, another type of the Antichrist.

Patroclus returns from the dead and appears to Achilles toward the beginning of Book 23. Truly did Jesus reappear to other humans with whom He was intimate after his human body had died!

Achilles “killed TWELVE noble sons of the great-hearted Trojans with the stroke of bronze.” (Iliad XXIII.175) In Iliad XXIII.22-23, it is said that he “beheads” these “TWELVE glorious children,” and puts them before the pyre on which Patroclus burns. Because Troy is a type of Jerusalem, as I argue when I discuss Achilles and Aeneas, the Trojans are types of the Jews, among whom were the TWELVE Apostles. Once Achilles has put these twelve around Patroclus, Achilles calls on the gods of the WIND, which come to the pyre accompanied by FIRE. (Iliad XXIII.207-217) TRULY DID JESUS SEND DOWN FIRE (REPRESENTING GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT) ONLY ABOUT 50 DAYS AFTER HE (SYMBOLIZED BY PATROCLUS) WAS PIERCED BY HIMSELF (SYMBOLIZED BY HECTOR, who pierces Patroclus in Book XVI) AND THEN REAPPEARED AFTER DEATH, ON THE TWELVE “GLORIOUS” AND “NOBLE” JEWISH APOSTLES, AND ACCOMPANIED THAT FIRE BY WIND, AND TRULY DID MOST OF THEM DIE BY THE SWORD AND WERE IN SOME CASES BEHEADED!!!!!!(Acts 2:1-2) (Remember that Jesus said in John 10:18: “No man taketh it [His life] from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.”) Among the beheaded were James the son of Zebedee.(http://agards-bible-timeline.com/q6_apostles_die.html) AND TRULY DID JESUS HAVE NO GRAVE IN WHICH HIS BODY REMAINED AFTER HIS BODY'S DEATH!

-ODYSSEUS
The Odyssey is about the life, trials, death, resurrection, and Second Coming of Jesus! Jesus’ life in the first century corresponds to Odysseus’ voyages with his companions. Odysseus’ descent into Hades in Book XI corresponds to Jesus’ descent into Hades after He dies in AD 33. Odysseus’ consequent stay in Phaiakia in Books VI-XII introduces us to King Alcinous ("Mighty Mind") and Queen Arete ("Virtue"), who are symbols of Christ and his virtuous "bride" (Matt. 22, 25), and whose house is symbolic of the Paradise which all members of the bride of Christ will dwell in. Books XIII-the end, which describe Odysseus appearing as a beggar among the base suitors, while revealing his glory to his son Telemachus and his servant Eumaios; and then revealing his true identity to all people, torturing the evil suitors and unfaithful servants, and being united with his bride Penelope in peaceful Ithaka, correspond to the facts that Jesus originally appeared lowly among base people in Jerusalem and was therefore scorned and not recognized by them, while Jesus revealed and transfigured Himself before some of His “sons,” but “every eye will see the Son of Man (Him) in His glory coming on the clouds of Heaven” when He comes to punish the wicked (see the parable of the punishment of the unfaithful servants in Matt. 24:45-51) who “ate and drank” “as in the days of Noah” and don’t expect to be destroyed (Matt. 24:37-38) and to wed His “bride” of people who have faith in Him in the peace-filled New Jerusalem. (Matt. 22, 25)

http://atheism.about.com/od/biblegospelofmark/a/homer.htm
Odysseus is plagued with unfaithful and dim-witted companions who display tragic flaws. They stupidly open a magic bag of wind while Odysseus sleeps and release terrible tempests which prevent their return home. These sailors are comparable to the disciples, who disbelieve Jesus, ask foolish questions, and show general ignorance about everything.

God has Plato make Socrates say that Odysseus is the “wisest man.” (Republic III) Homer says "Odyssseus the godlike...is beyond all other men in mind." (Odyssey 1.66) “In Christ are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” (Colossians 2:3) Toward the end of the Myth of Er, on the last page of the Republic, when Socrates discusses what lives the Greek heroes choose for their next life, God has Plato make Socrates say that Odysseus “flung away love of honor, went about for a long time in quest of the life of an ordinary citizen who lived a quiet life free from politics (or “who cultivated little property”), and with difficulty found it lying in some corner disregarded by the others, and upon seeing it said that it would have done the same had it drawn the first lot, and chose it gladly.” (Republic X) Truly was it said about Jesus: “He shall not strive nor cry out, nor shall any one in the streets hear his voice,” for truly did He often tell people whom He healed not to make him publicly known. (Matthew 12:16-19) God especially calls attention to this statement about Odysseus by having him mentioned last of all the Greek heroes. Furthermore, by juxtaposing Odysseus with many other Greek heroes making stupid choices, God shows how much greater “Odysseus” is than any other hero!!!

There are many other qualities of Odysseus which make Jesus and other symbols of Jesus resemble him more than any other person. Odysseus "beyond others has given sacrifice to the gods" (Odyssey 1.66-67), as Jesus "once and for all" (on the cross, not at every mass as the Catholic Church falsely teaches) offers himself as a "sacrifice" which "takes away sins," unlike all other Jewish high priests whose "sacrifices can never take away sins." (Hebrews 7:27, 10:11) Odysseus is "excellent in every virtue" (Ody. 18.205) and "among the Danaans surpassed in all virtues" (Ody. 4.815), just as Jesus surpasses all mere humans in virtue because Jesus alone "did no sin," (1 Peter 2:22), for "all sinned and fall short of the glory of God." (Romans 3:23) Eumaios, a symbol of one who calls Jesus his "master, though he is absent" (Ody. 14.147), says of Odysseus that "never again now will I find again a lord as kind as he." (Ody. 14. 138-39) Although Odysseus lied, all "types of Christ" sinned during their lives, as King David commits adultery with Bathsheba (2 Samuel 11) and King Solomon sleeps with many women (1 Kings 11). And I don't think that any of Odysseus' lies were not meant for the good of other people, as Odysseus in Book 9 lies to the Cyclops Polyphemus (a type of Goliath who battles David a type of Christ) to save his men from destruction. Despite the fact that Jesus is more perfect than all types of Christ, the similarities between Christ and the types of Christ such as Odysseus and David are so numerous and so uncommon that they should not be discounted. Also, as Odysseus "saved the lives of all the Achaians"by restraining the Greeks in the Trojan Horse from calling out and thereby prematurely revealing that they are hiding within the horse (Odyssey 4.284-289), so does Jesus alone (Acts 4:12) save people from eternal destruction by restraining them from what would cause their destruction, for He supplies His people with the Holy Spirit so that they can have faith, love, peace, self-control, etc. (Galatians 5:22) Both Odysseus and Jesus are carpenters. (Mark 6:3)

As Odysseus saves his fellow Greeks from the giant Polyphemus by striking him in the forehead in Book 9, so does David a type of Christ save his fellow Jews from the giant Goliath (a type of the Anti-Christ) by striking him in the forehead!

gol poly Odysseus attacks Polyphemus

In the following passage, The Trinity portrays The Last Supper followed by the agony in the Garden of Gethsemane, where all the companions of Jesus fall asleep while Jesus is praying to God the Father, and feels very agonized about what the suffering He would have to endure soon. (Matthew 26:17-46) Circe, a goddess, was made by the Trinity as a symbol of God the Father; as was Teiresias, for he is so different from any other soul insofar as he alone has intelligence among the dead and Odysseus must offer his finest sheep to him, as Christ offers himself as the “Lamb of God” (John 1:29) as a “propitiation” to God the Father to pay for the sins of whoever has faith in Him. (Romans 3:25) Teiresias is portrayed as a symbol of God in Sophocles’s Antigone as well. Circe’s telling Odysseus that he has to go to Hades the house of the dead is analogous to God the Father telling Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane that He has to die, for Jesus descended into Hades: “But since He [Jesus] ascended, what is it but that also he first descended into the lower parts of the Earth? He that ascended is the same who also ascended above the heavens, that He might fulfill all things.” (Ephesians 4:9-10) “Hades” (which word actually appears often in the Bible, although it is translated by the King James Version as “Hell”) was depicted both in the Bible and in Ancient Greek literature to be in “the lower parts of the Earth.” For instance, the prophet Samuel’s “ghost” is said to “come up from the Earth.” (1 Samuel 28:13)

Ody. 10. 426-525:
"Thus did they [Odysseus’ companions] speak and I assented. Thereon through the livelong day to the going down of the sun we feasted our fill on meat and wine, but when the sun went down and it came on dark the men laid themselves down to sleep in the covered cloisters. I, however, after I had got into bed with Circe, besought her by her knees, and the goddess listened to what I had got to say. 'Circe,' said I, 'please to keep the promise you made me about furthering me on my homeward voyage. I want to get back and so do my men, they are always pestering me with their complaints as soon as ever your back is turned.'
"And the goddess answered, 'Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, you shall none of you stay here any longer if you do not want to, but there is another journey which you have got to take before you can sail homewards. You must go to the house of Hades and of dread Proserpine to consult the ghost of the blind Theban prophet TEIRESIAS whose reason is still unshaken. To him alone has Proserpine left his understanding even in death, but the other ghosts flit about aimlessly.'

"I was dismayed when I heard this. I sat up in bed and wept, and would gladly have lived no longer to see the light of the sun, but presently when I was tired of weeping and tossing myself about, I said, 'And who shall guide me upon this voyage- for the house of Hades is a port that no ship can reach.'...More particularly you must promise that Teiresias shall have a black sheep all to himself, the finest in all your flocks.” (TRULY DID JESUS THE LAMB OF GOD DIED AT AGE 33 IN AD 33, as this last sentence appears at line 5-2-5! Similarly, violent deaths are described on page 333 of Richmond Lattimore’s translation, and Telemachus speculates on page 33 that Odysseus died!)

The following passage from Book 16 of the Odyssey beginning around line 170 was made by the Trinity to resemble how Christ was transfigured to look like God before his disciples, whom He as God gave birth to, and is therefore fittingly considered the “father” of Christians along with God the Father. In fact, Christ is called the “Everlasting Father” (Isaiah9:6). Likewise, Isaac, another type of Christ, is made to be the “father” of Jacob and Esau to show that Jesus chooses to bless some people (in this case, Jacob) and not bless others (in this case, Esau), though not because of any merit of their own. (For Jacob was base: he envied his brother and stole his birthright!) Like Jesus before his disciples, Odysseus is transfigured to look like God before his son Telemachus. Although Odysseus unlike Jesus denies that he is a god, he clearly appears like one. Remember that the Trinity has concealed the resemblances between Jesus and characters of the great works of literature.

“Jesus took with him Peter and James and John his brother, and brings them up into a high mountain apart. And he was transfigured [or “transformed”] before them, and his face shone as the sun, and his garments became white as the light.” (Matthew 17:1-2)

“Minerva [Athena, the goddess of Wisdom] watched him well off the station, and then came up to it in the form of a woman- fair, stately, and wise. She stood against the side of the entry, and revealed herself to Ulysses, but Telemachus could not see her, and knew not that she was there, for the gods do not let themselves be seen by everybody. Ulysses saw her, and so did the dogs, for they did not bark, but went scared and whining off to the other side of the yards. She nodded her head and motioned to Ulysses with her eyebrows; whereon he left the hut and stood before her outside the main wall of the yards. Then she said to him:
"Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, it is now time for you to tell your son: do not keep him in the dark any longer, but lay your plans for the destruction of the suitors, and then make for the town. I will not be long in joining you, for I too am eager for the fray."

As she spoke she touched him with her golden wand. First she threw a fair clean shirt and cloak about his shoulders; then she made him younger and of more imposing presence; she gave him back his colour, filled out his cheeks, and let his beard become dark again. Then she went away and Ulysses came back inside the hut. His son was astounded when he saw him, and turned his eyes away for fear he might be looking upon a god.

"Stranger," said he, "how suddenly you have changed from what you were a moment or two ago. You are dressed differently and your colour is not the same. Are you some one or other of the gods that live in heaven? If so, be propitious to me till I can make you due sacrifice and offerings of wrought gold. Have mercy upon me."

And long-suffering great Ulysses said, "I am no god, why should you take me for one? I am your father, on whose account you grieve and suffer so much at the hands of lawless men."
As he spoke he kissed his son, and a tear fell from his cheek on to the ground, for he had restrained all tears till now. but Telemachus could not yet believe that it was his father, and said:

"You are not my father, but some god is flattering me with vain hopes that I may grieve the more hereafter; no mortal man could of himself contrive to do as you have been doing, and make yourself old and young at a moment's notice, unless a god were with him. A second ago you were old and all in rags, and now you are like some god come down from heaven."

The Odyssey is about the life, trials, death, resurrection, and Second Coming of Jesus! In the middle of the Odyssey, in Book XI of twenty-four books, Odysseus descends into Hades and then reappears on Earth as a human, as if he is resurrected! Jesus does the same thing in the middle of history, at the division between BC and AD! Similarly, Aeneas’ descent into Hades takes place in the middle of the Virgil’s Aeneid, in Book VI of twelve books. In both the Odyssey and the Aeneid, there is a major shift in the plot after the descent into Hades.
After Odysseus is “resurrected,” Books XIII to the end concern his return to Ithaka. Odysseus calls it “sunny Ithaka,” says it has one “mountain there that stands tall, leaf-trembling Neritos,” and says “I cannot think of any place sweeter on earth to look at.” (IX: 21-28) After Jesus is resurrected, He eventually returns to found the New Jerusalem, which will indeed be “sunny” because it will house the Son of God Himself and will have “no night” (Rev. 21:25), because it will have Mount Zion (Psalm 15:1, 48:2), and because one day there is “better than a thousand anywhere else” (Psalm 84:10)!

“But since He [Jesus] ascended, what is it but that also he first descended into the lower parts of the Earth? He that ascended is the same who also ascended above the heavens, that He might fulfill all things.” (Ephesians 4:9-10)

“Indeed Christ once for sins suffered, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God; having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive by the Spirit, He thus went and then preached to the spirits in prison, who had disobeyed, when once the longsuffering of God was waiting in the days of Noah.” (1 Peter 3:18-20)
When Odysseus come to Ithaka, he destroys the suitors who had been dwelling together with his wife Penelope and causing her anguish. When Jesus comes again, He will destroy those who had been dwelling together with His “bride” and causing her anguish, as He says in the parables of the weeds and of the fishing net (Matthew 13). THE CUTTING OFF OF MELAMPIUS’S EARS AND NOSE IN BOOK XXII OF THE ODYSSEY IS SYMBOLIC OF THE TREMENDOUS PAIN THAT CHRIST WILL INFLICT ON THOSE WHO DISOBEY HIM. The Odyssey ends with the Goddess of Wisdom establishing peace in Odysseus’ realm. Similarly, the God of Wisdom will in the end establish peace in His realm!
After Aeneas is resurrected, Books VII-XII of the Aeneid concern Aeneas arriving in Rome and destroying many people, and result in peace being established in Rome and wherever Rome governs during the 200-year Pax Romana. During these books, Virgil models the Aeneid after Homer’s Iliad and Aeneas after the Iliad’s Achilles, while during Books I-VI, Virgil models it after Homer’s Odyssey and Aeneas after the Odyssey’s Odysseus.
In the second halves of the Odyssey and the Aeneid and in the final chapter of Jesus’ story, Odysseus, Aeneas, and Jesus return to the place from which their ancestors came, for Aeneas’ ancestor Dardanus had his home in Italy and Jesus’ Father has His home in the New Jerusalem.

THE NINE MUSES (originally THREE)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muses
In Greek mythology, the Muses (Ancient Greek "aÊ? :@??Fs"a4?, hai moéusai [1]: perhaps from the Proto-Indo-European root *men- "think"[2]) are a sisterhood of goddesses or spirits, their number set at nine by Classical times, who embody the arts and inspire the creation process with their graces

The Olympian system set Apollo as their leader. [How fitting, for Jesus the real SUN God created them and governs how they appear!]

mousike, whence "music", was "the art of the Muses". In the archaic period, before the wide-spread availability of books, this included nearly all of learning: the first Greek book on astronomy, by Thales, was set in dactylic hexameter, as were many works of pre-Socratic philosophy; both Plato and the Pythagoreans explicitly included philosophy as a sub-species of mousike[6] Herodotus, whose
primary medium of delivery was public recitation, named each one of the nine books of his Histories after a different Muse, invoked at the outset.

The muses are typically invoked at or near the beginning of an epic poem or classical Greek hymn. They have served as aids to an author of prose, too, sometimes represented as the true speaker, for whom an author is only a mouthpiece

Homer, in Book I of The Odyssey:

"Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns
driven time and again off course, once he had plundered
the hallowed heights of Troy." (Robert Fagles translation, 1996)
Virgil, in Book I of the Aeneid:
O Muse! the causes and the crimes relate;
What goddess was provok'd, and whence her hate;
For what offense the Queen of Heav'n began
To persecute so brave, so just a man; [...]
(John Dryden translation, 1697)

Dante Alighieri, in Canto II of

The Inferno:
O Muses, O high genius, aid me now!
O memory that engraved the things I saw,
Here shall your worth be manifest to all! (Anthony Esolen translation, 2002)
John Milton, opening of Book 1 of Paradise Lost:
Of Man’s first disobedience, and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste
Brought death into the World, and all our woe,
With loss of Eden, till one greater Man
Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat,
Sing, Heavenly Muse, [...]
William Shakespeare, Act 1, Prologue of Henry V:
Chorus: O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention,
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!

Geoffrey Chaucer, in Book II of Troilus and Criseyde:
O lady myn, that called art Cleo,
Thow be my speed fro this forth, and my Muse,
To ryme wel this book til I haue do;
Me nedeth here noon othere art to vse.
ffor-whi to euery louere I me excuse
That of no sentement I this endite,
But out of Latyn in my tonge it write.

According to Pausanias in the later second century AD,[4] there were three original Muses: Aoid‘e ("song" or "voice"), Melet‘e ("practice" or "occasion"), and Mn‘em‘e ("memory"). Together, these three form the complete picture of the preconditions of poetic art in cult practice. In Delphi three Muses were worshipped as well, but with other names: N‘et‘e, Mes‘e, and Hypat‘e, which are the names of the three chords of the ancient musical instrument, the lyre. Alternatively they were called C‘ephisso, Apollonis, and Borysthenis, whose names characterise them as daughters of Apollo.

THE THREE GRACES
They ordinarily numbered three, from youngest to oldest:

Aglaea ("Beauty"), Euphrosyne ("Mirth"), and Thalia ("Good Cheer"). THE TRINITY ARE HAPPY GODS AND ARE THE SOURCE OF ETERNAL HAPPINESS!
Pausanias interrupts his Description of Greece (book 9.xxxv.1 - 7) to expand upon the various conceptions of the Graces that had developed in different parts of mainland Greece and Ionia:
"The
Boeotians say that Eteocles was the first man to sacrifice to the Graces. Moreover, they are aware that he established three as the number of the Graces...
It was from Eteocles of
Orchomenus that we learned the custom of praying to three Graces. ..Again, at Athens, before the entrance to the
Acropolis, the Graces are three in number

THE THREE ONEIROI (DREAMS)
In Greek mythology, the Oneiroi were the brothers (According to Hesiod) or sons (according to Ovid) of Hypnos, the god of sleep. They were personifications of dreams—black-winged daemons.

The most powerful Oneiros was Morpheus. His brothers Phobetor and Phantasos crafted parts of dreams, while he formed the dream in general. Morpheus shaped human figures, Phobetor animal, while Phantasos shaped inanimate objects.
Morpheus has the ability to take any human's form and appear in dreams.

Morpheus sends images of humans in dreams or visions, and is responsible for shaping dreams, or giving shape to the beings which inhabit dreams. Phobetor made fearsome dreams (etymologically related to "phobia" from the Greek Nf`?$@?H? "fear"). Phantasos produced tricky and unreal dreams (hence "fantasy", "phantasmagoria", etc.).

Morpheus is often referred to as "Morpheus the Greek god of dreams" in superiority to his brothers. [So is God the Father supreme to God the Son and God the Holy Spirit! Remember that even among the Trimurti Hindu gods, two of them were often considered subordinate to the third one!]

They are described in the Odyssey, Hesiod's Theogony, and Ovid's Metamorphoses, and are briefly mentioned in Vergil's Aeneid when Aeneas is coming back from the Underworld.

Hesiod establishes them in his Theogony as sons of Nyx through parthenogenesis (Hesiod Theogony 212; Sappho Frag 63, Statius Thebaid 10.112) [Truly was Jesus generated by a virgin (parthenos)!]

THE THREE FATES (Greek: “Moirai”, Roman: “Parcae”)
These three appear very prominently on the last few pages of Plato’s Republic in the “Myth” of Er.

Zeus also was subject to their power, as the Pythian priestess at Delphi once admitted [Truly does the Trinity rule all beings!]

Clotho ("spinner") spun the thread of life from her distaff onto her spindle. It was Clotho who spun the threads of life with her distaff to bring a being into existence.Lachesis ("allotter" or drawer of lots) measured the thread of life allotted to each person with her measuring rod. Atropos ("inexorable" or "inevitable", literally "unturning",[4] sometimes called Aisa) was the cutter of the thread of life. She chose the manner and timing of each person's death. [IN THE “MYTH” AT THE END OF PLATO’S REPUBLIC, LACHESIS HAS APPARENTLY DESIGNED THE DIFFERENT LIVES HERSELF, FOR THE LOTS COME FROM HER.]

The Moirae were supposed to appear three nights after a child's birth to determine the course of its life. [Truly did Jesus rise from the dead after “three nights in the heart of the Earth” (Matt. 12:40)!!!!!!!!]

Despite their forbidding reputation, Moirae could be worshipped as goddesses. Brides in Athens offered them locks of hair and women swore by them. [Truly do all three persons of the Trinity have the nature of God!]

The Fates determine not just how people die, but also how they live. For instance, Virgil says in the Aeneid I.apx.19-35 that the “Parcae spun” that the Trojans would overthrow the city of Carthage and would found the Roman people. In Sophocles’s Oedipus, it is fated that Oedipus marry his mother and kill his father, and he cannot escape this fate no matter how hard he tries. Truly does the Bible speak when it says “O LORD, I know that the way of [or “road traveled by”] man is not in himself, it is not in man that walks to direct his steps.” (Jeremiah 10:23) Jeremiah says this after he speaks of God sending the King of Assyria to conquer the Jews, and thereby implies that the King’s coming is a “step” of the king. By “steps,” Jeremiah apparently means whatever a person does. For the same Hebrew word is used for “steps” when holy Job (whom God made as a symbol of Christ) says about God, “Does not he see my ways, and count all my steps?” (Job 31:4), and then immediately goes on throughout Job Ch. 31 to describe many different things he did, such as how he never fornicated, never ignored his servants complaints against him, never denied his food to widows and orphans, clothed the needy, never struck an orphan, never wished an enemy of his to die, and welcomed many traveling people into his home. God indeed governs your actions, even if you are not Christian and not aware of this fact!

HERACLES & THESEUS, THE GREATEST HEROES IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY (Along with Achilles, Odysseus, Aeneas)

-HERACLES/HERCULES
God has Alcibiades call Socrates “Heracles” when he first sees him in Plato’s Symposium, to show that both are types of Christ!

He was born on Dec. 25th, as Jesus and 5 others gods which God made resemble Him are said to have been born! (See Table of Contents) http://farbensays.blogspot.com/2007/12/happy-december-25th-day.html

"...temple [in Egypt] dedicated to Heracles. If a slave runs away from his master, and taking sanctuary at this shrine gives himself up to the GOD, and receives certain sacred marks upon his person, whoever his master may be, he cannot lay hand on him." (Herodotus's History 2.113) So did a Jewish person in Egypt avoid destruction by having the blood of the Passover Lamb (a type of Christ) upon his doorpost. (Exodus 12) "There is no other name under heaven by which men can be saved [other than the name of Jesus Christ.]" (Acts 4:12)

Heracles was at times considered "one of the TWELVE gods" (Herodotus's History 2.43), as Jesus was among his eleven faithful disciples (not including the twelfth named Judas) who will rule like gods. (Matthew 19)

According to one "silly fable" told by many Ancient Greeks, in Egypt, the inhabitants were "intending to offer him a SACRIFICE TO ZEUS. For a while he SUBMITTED QUIETLY; but when they led him up to the altar, and began the ceremonies, he put forth his strength and SLEW THEM ALL...many thousands." (Herodotus's History 2.45) Perhaps God made this fable to show that Jesus too was sacrificed to God the Father, submitted quietly, but slew many thousands of Jews in the city of Jerusalem in AD 70 as punishment. (Amos 3:6: "Shall there be evil in the city, and the LORD hath not done it?") Herodotus is perhaps wrong to characterize the fable as "silly," based on the fact that it is hard to believe that one man can slay thousands, for remember that King David, a type of Christ, "has slain his tens of thousands." (1 Samuel 17)

The following paragraphs about Hercules are quoted from http://www.jesusisbuddha.com/larsa.html.

The cult of Hercules was flourishing as early as in the sixth century B.C. From the very beginning, Hercules was looked upon as the son of god and the redeemer of mankind. As time went by, the tales told of his life were expanded and even more idealised by the Stoics, and others. At the beginning of the Christian era, the faith of Hercules was spread in large parts of the Mediterranean area, Greece, Syria, and Rome.

A young virgin, Alcmene, is married to an earthly man, Amphitryon. He does not touch his wife, however, until the great god Zeus has impregnated her, so that she can give birth to a son, half-man, half-god, while still remaining a virgin. This son is Hercules. He is born, not in Amphitryon's town Mycenae, but in Thebae, while his earthly parents are travelling. Nevertheless, he will be called Hercules of Mycenae, just as Jesus was called Jesus of Nazareth, though he was not born there. The two consonants of Thebae, th-b, are the same as the first two consonants in Bethlehem, b-th.

The divine consort of Zeus, Hera, learns about the birth of a son to her philandering husband, is enraged with jealousy, and attempts to kill Hercules. In order to avoid persecution, Alcmene hides her infant son in a remote place, to fetch him later to his home.

Before Hercules begins his public activity, he dwells a long time alone. During this time he is being tried with temptations, which he overcomes, however. The god Hermes takes him up on a high mountain where he shows him the realms of kings and tyrants.

Hercules must fulfill a mission his father has given him, a mission of suffering, and he proves eventually to be an obedient son. The mission is confirmed by way of prophecy, in the case of Hercules a prophecy by the oracle, in the case of Jesus a prophecy from the book of Isaiah (Luke 4:16ff.). Hercules is called the Saviour.

Hercules is able to walk on water, but his true feat is to overcome death, a death leading to life eternal. His wife Deianeira causes his death by accident, is overcome by horror and remorse, and hangs herself. The dead body of Hercules is burnt on the mountain Oeta.When Hercules is dying, both his mother and his most beloved disciple, Hylas, are present. Compare John 19:25f. Before dying, Hercules calls to his heavenly father: "I pray unto thee, take my spirit up to the stars… Behold, my father is calling me and is opening the heavens. I am coming, father." As he gives up his spirit, he says, "It is consummated". His death is accompanied by an earthquake and an eclipse of the sun. After his death, Hercules is resurrected and cries, "Do not sorrow, mother… after this I go up into heaven", which he does later. Even the Gospel story that the most beloved disciple took care of the saviour's mother (John 19:26f) is found in the Hercules legend.

Jesus revisionists say that materials borrowed from the Hercules cult are found especially in the Gospel of John. The idea of the Logos ("the Word"), so important in John's christology, is borrowed from the Stoics and existed in the Hercules cult. When John writes (3:17): "For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved", this should be seen in the light of what Cornutus wrote in the first century: "For the Logos is not there to harm or to punish, but to save."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules

he was renowned as having "made the world safe for mankind" by destroying many dangerous monsters.

(Book VIII. 185-305) As Hercules is celebrated by these men year after year for causing men to be “saved from barbaric dangers,” so is Jesus ever-celebrated for saving His people from Satan and from their sins! Cacus sounds like the Greek word Kakos, which means “Evil”! Satan is the Evil One! Cacus has a “bestial form” just like Satan! Hercules and Jesus both have “well-fed cattle,” for Jesus takes care of His people! As Hercules violently attacks Cacus with extreme anger to rescue the “ONE heifer” that was captured by Cacus, SO IS JESUS EXTREMELY ZEALOUS TO RESCUE EVEN “ONE” LOST SHEEP:

“What man of you having a hundred SHEEP, and having lost ONE of them, leaves not the ninety-nine in the wilderness and goes ater that which has been LOST, until he find it? And having found it, he lays it on his shoulders rejoicing, and having come to the house he calls together friends and neighbors, and having come to the house he calls together friends and neighbors, saying to them: ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost!’ I say to you, that thus joy shall be in Heaven over ONE sinner repenting, more than over the ninety-nine righteous ones, who have no need of repenting.” (Luke 15:4-7)

And Jesus says, “The Son of Man [Jesus] came to seek and SAVE THE LOST.” (Luke 19:10)

This whole scene is a symbol of how angry Jesus is at Satan for capturing the LOST people! OH, HIS LOVE IS AMAZING!!!! As Hercules destroys Cacus, Jesus will destroy Satan!

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Hercules & Cacus (www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Arts/scultpurePlastic/sculpture/bigphotos/B/hercules.jpg)

-THESEUS (notice how similar his name is to JESUS!)

(from Wikipedia:)

-Like Hercules & Jesus, Theseus has a mortal (Aegeus) & immortal (Poseidon) father. "

-As Heracles was the Dorian hero, Theseus was the Ionian founding hero, considered by Athenians as their own great reformer. His name comes from the same root as θεσμ?ς ("thesmos"), Greek for institution. He was responsible for the synoikismos ("dwelling together")—the political unification of Attica under Athens, represented in his journey of labours"

-As Hercules did during his "Twelve Labors," Theseus SAVED humans from destructive persons such as Siris, who "would capture travellers, tie them between two pine trees which were bent down to the ground, and then let the trees go, tearing his victims apart." Truly does Jesus the Son of God SAVE people from Satan.

-Like Achilles, Ajax, & other symbols of Jesus, his body was gigantic (see section on Achilles), symbolic of Jesus' preeminence & perhaps his size in the New Jerusalem.

-He has a son Hippolytus who was made by God to symbolize Jesus (see section on Euripides's Hippolytus below). Thus, Theseus, like many other symbols including the Sun, Achilles & Socrates, is a symbol of God the Father as well as God the Son who shares the same Divine Nature as the Father. Truly was Jesus the Son of God the Father.

-Like Hercules, Odysseus, Aeneas, & Jesus, was said to have returned from Hades, the world of the dead, alive! Jesus truly rose from the dead!

-Lycomedes of the island of Skyros threw Theseus off a cliff. Truly did the Son of God die a violent death on the cross.

-Oedipus says of him: "In you alone among mankind piety and fairness and the absence of lying speech!" "Could he bring here Theseus, in all ways the best of men?" (Sophocles's Oedipus at Colonus 1125, 1457-58) Only Jesus was "blameless" (Hebrews 9) & He is the best of men.

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ANCIENT ATHENS & ATHENIAN EMPIRE DURING THE AGE OF PERICLES (462-429 BC: 33 YEARS TOTAL): COUNTERFEIT OF CHRIST'S EMPIRE CENTERED AT NEW JERUSALEM DURING THE FUTURE AGE OF JESUS

PERICLES map war

There are many resemblances between Athens and the New Jerusalem, for those in the New Jerusalem will be constantly presented with the wisdom of God as those in 5th and 4th century Athens were presented with the wisdom of Aeschylus-Sophocles-Euripides and Socrates-Plato-Aristotle. And the Athenians were ruled by Pericles, whom Thucydides calls “the first citizen of Athens,” just as the New Jerusalem will be ruled by Jesus. (There are many other things that Pericles & Jesus have in common) Consider also the following similarities between Athens and the New Jerusalem:10

-“At its height in the 440s B.C., the Athenian Empire was composed of 172 tribute-paying states. Athens now controlled the Aegean.” So will the New Jerusalem be the seat of a wide-ranging empire, as is true of Ancient Rome too.

-“Most of the monumental works of architecture, built off of the wealth that literally poured into Athens from her imperial possessions, were built at this time: the Acropolis, the rebuilding of the Agora. Flush with wealth and at peace with Persia and Sparta, the Athenians had nothing better to do with this wealth then invest it in a massive cultural flowering of art, poetry, philosophy, and architecture.” So did John truly say about the New Jerusalem, “The nations of the saved shall walk in its light; and the kings of the Earth shall bring their honor and glory into it…And they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it." (Rev. 21:24-26)

-both Athens and Jerusalem (and Rome) are near the coast of the Mediterranean Sea

Pericles (also spelled Perikles) (c. 495 – 429 BC)

CHECK BACK ON THIS SECTION ON PERICLES IN A FEW DAYS, FOR I DIDN'T INCLUDE THIS INFO UNTIL TODAY AFTER REALIZING THAT LINCOLN LIKE HIM IS A TYPE OF THE ANTICHRIST
-His name in Greek means “surrounded by glory,” to show that Christ is currently in the Heavenly City surrounded by glory, as is seen in Revelation 5!!!
-He was a prominent and influential statesman, orator, and general of Athens during the city's Golden Age—specifically, the time between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars.
-The Greek word for Athens- Athina, the Greek goddess of Wisdom- indicate that this city is the City where Divine Wisdom dwells!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-He was descended, through his mother, from the powerful and historically influential Alcmaeonid family.” As I will discuss below, St. Thomas Aquinas too is descended from such a family through his mother! These facts show that Jesus indeed was descended from a line of kings beginning with King David, through His mother! (Luke 3)
-Pericles had such a profound influence on Athenian society that Thucydides, his contemporary historian, acclaimed him as "the first citizen of Athens". Pericles turned the Delian League into an Athenian empire and led his countrymen during the first two years of the Peloponnesian War. The Son of God too will be exalted over all other citizens of the New Jerusalem, which like Athens and Rome is on the Mediterranean Sea! God chose great Empires to be founded at Athens and Rome in part to make a stronger connection between them and the city of Jerusalem that dwells on the coast too.
-The period during which he led Athens, roughly from 461 to 429 BC, is sometimes known as the "Age of Pericles" This happened to show that God’s Son truly did live for 33 years in Jerusalem, whose renewed version is symbolized by Athens!
-Since the city had suffered great damage during the Persian Wars, much of Pericles’s work involved rebuilding of the city. Pericles gave the task of rebuilding to many of the poorer citizens of Athens; while he favored helping the poor, he sought to do so by giving them occupations rather than merely granting them charity. Many of the beautiful structures of Athens were built during this time, but most of the work focused on the rebuilding and repairing of temples, including the Acropolis, and on rebuilding the Agora. [i.e. marketplace where people communed]
- At its height in the 440s B.C., the Athenian Empire was composed of 172 tribute-paying states. Athens now controlled the Aegean. So will the New Jerusalem be the seat of a wide-ranging empire, as is true of Ancient Rome too
-Most of the monumental works of architecture, built off of the wealth that literally poured into Athens from her imperial possessions, were built at this time: the Acropolis, the rebuilding of the Agora. Flush with wealth and at peace with Persia and Sparta, the Athenians had nothing better to do with this wealth then invest it in a massive cultural flowering of art, poetry, philosophy, and architecture.
John truly said about the New Jerusalem, “The nations of the saved shall walk in its light; and the kings of the Earth shall bring their honor and glory into it…And they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it." (Rev. 21:24-26)

-He fostered arts and literature and gave to Athens a splendor which would never return throughout its history.
-Pericles promoted the arts and literature; this was a chief reason Athens holds the reputation of being the educational and cultural centre of the ancient Greek world. He started an ambitious project that built most of the surviving structures on the Acropolis (including the Parthenon). This project beautified the city, exhibited its glory, and gave work to the people.[1]
-Furthermore, Pericles fostered Athenian democracy to such an extent that critics call him a populist.[2][3] “For the first time, men were paid to participate in government organizations and sit on juries.” Truly did John see in Heaven those who were faithful to Christ say that Christ will allow them to reign over the Earth! (Rev. 5:10)
"Our polity does not copy the laws of neighboring states; we are rather a pattern to others than imitators ourselves. It is called a democracy, because not the few but the many govern. If we look to the laws, they afford equal justice to all in their private differences; if to social standing, advancement in public life falls to reputation for capacity, class considerations not being allowed to interfere with merit; nor again does poverty bar the way, if a man is able to serve the state, he is not hindered by the obscurity of his condition." Pericles' Funeral Oration as recorded by Thucydides,
God had Thucydides say this to show that those who have more capacity to do good will have a higher social standing in the New Jerusalem! God says the same thing in Book IV of the Republic, when He has Plato say that the Heavenly City is perfectly just insofar as people there do only what they are “worthy of”! (Republic 434b)
-Perhaps the most splendid days of the ancient Greek city of Athens took place during the time of Pericles, one of the most influential statesmen in the history of Greece. Unlike previous influential rulers of Athens such as Pisistratus or Polycrates, Pericles did not rule directly over the people as a dictator. Instead, he used his eloquent speaking ability and keen sense of judgment to gain support for his plans and programs in the city of Athens. Pericles was a good example of the application of Ecclesiastes 12:11, which says, “The words of the wise are like goads, their collected sayings like firmly imbedded nails.” Deeply dedicated to his home city, Pericles made use of his words to bring about change and encourage prosperity of Athens.
-His family's nobility and wealth allowed him to fully pursue his inclination toward education. He learned music from the masters of the time (Damon or Pythocleides could have been his teacher)[10][11]and he is considered to have been the first politician to attribute great importance to philosophy.[9] He enjoyed the company of the philosophers Protagoras, Zeno of Elea and Anaxagoras. Anaxagoras in particular became a close friend and influenced him greatly.[10][12] Pericles' manner of thought and rhetorical charisma may have been in part products of Anaxagoras' emphasis on emotional calm in the face of trouble and skepticism about divine phenomena.[4] His proverbial calmness and self-control are also regarded as products of Anaxagoras' influence.[13]
-Plutarch says that Pericles stood first among the Athenians for FORTY years. Jesus truly did walk in Jerusalem for FORTY days after He was resurrected! (Acts 1:3)
-His able tongue and sharp intellect, however, proved to be his strongest advantages, and his zeal for serving his homeland led him to pursue high office.

http://www.gogreece.com/learn/history/athenian_empire.html

Peloponnesian War. 2.37.

http://www.hyperhistory.net/apwh/bios/b2pericles.htm

CONFUCIUS of Ancient China (551-479 BC) and

SOCRATES ("Sos" meaning "safe" is related to the verb "sozo" which means "to save." Thus, "So-crates" means "saving power.") of Ancient Athens (470/469-399 BC)

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_text_earlychinrel2.htm

Herbert A. Giles, M.A., LL.D., Professor of Chinese at the University of Cambridge, says about Confucius:

Now for many centuries he has been the central figure and object of a cult as sincere as ever offered by man to any being, human or divine. Gradually, the people came to look upon Confucius as a god, and women used to pray to him for children. In 555, temples were placed in all prefectural cities; and later on, in all the important cities and towns of the empire. In the second and eighth months of each year, before dawn, sacrifices to Confucius are still celebrated with considerable solemnity and pomp, including music and dances by bands of either thirty-six or sixty-four performers.

According to Jeffrey Riegel, Chair of the Center of Chinese Studies at the University of Berkeley plato.stanford.edu/entries/confucius/ ,

Confucius' social philosophy largely revolves around the concept of ren, “compassion” or “loving others.” Cultivating or practicing such concern for others involved deprecating oneself. This meant being sure to avoid artful speech or an ingratiating manner that would create a false impression and lead to self-aggrandizement. (Lunyu 1.3) Those who have cultivated ren are, on the contrary, “simple in manner and slow of speech.” (Lunyu 13.27). For Confucius, such concern for others is demonstrated through the practice of forms of the Golden Rule: “What you do not wish for yourself, do not do to others;” “Since you yourself desire standing then help others achieve it, since you yourself desire success then help others attain it.” (Lunyu 12.2, 6.30). He regards devotion to parents and older siblings as the most basic form of promoting the interests of others before one's own and teaches that such altruism can be accomplished only by those who have learned self-discipline.

Confucius resembles Socrates and Jesus more than he resembles any other person in the world. There are so many similarities between Confucius and Socrates that it would be absolutely absurd to deny that God made their lives resemble one another and Jesus to support the truthfulness of the Bible’s portrait of Jesus. Here are some things the three men held in common:

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_holy_days_in_the_Confucian_religion

At the end of the 4th century, Mencius [a famous Chinese philosopher] says of Confucius: “Ever since man came into this world, there has never been one greater than Confucius.” And in two passages Mencius implies that Confucius was one of the great sage kings who, according to his reckoning, arises every five hundred years. [This is certainly true of Jesus and Socrates too, as I will show in detail when I discuss Socrates alone]

Carl G. Jung wrote, "Confucius and Socrates compete for first place as far as reasonableness and a pedagogic attitude to life are concerned." 31. I Ching, Wilhelm/Baynes edition, Foreword, p. xxxii. [Surely Jesus in whom are “all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” (Colossians 2:3) surpasses even these two men in this respect.]

Confucius also claimed that he enjoyed a special and privileged relationship with Heaven and that, by the age of fifty, he had come to understand what Heaven had mandated for him and for mankind. (Lunyu 2.4). Confucius was also careful to instruct his followers that they should never neglect the offerings due Heaven. (Lunyu 3.13) Some scholars have seen a contradiction between Confucius' reverence for Heaven and what they believe to be his skepticism with regard to the existence of ‘the spirits.’ But the Analects passages that reveal Confucius's attitudes toward spiritual forces (Lunyu 3.12, 6.20, and 11.11) do not suggest that he was skeptical. Rather they show that Confucius revered and respected the spirits, thought that they should be worshipped with utmost sincerity, and taught that serving the spirits was a far more difficult and complicated matter than serving mere mortals.

Similarly, Socrates was taught by God what was “Heaven had mandated for him and mankind.” For, he says “God appointed me, as I supposed and believed, to the duty of leading the philosophical life, examining myself and others.” (Apology 28e) “This duty I have accepted...in obedience to God’s commands given in oracles and dreams and in every other way that any other divine dispensation has ever impressed a duty upon a man.” (Apol. 33c) He does not lie when he says that God commanded him, for I can confidently say after having studied about twenty-four dialogues of Plato with the utmost care, that Socrates’ conception of human excellence is completely or almost completely consistent with the conception of human excellence presented by the God of the Bible. For Socrates too teaches that what is most important is to know and love God, as can be seen especially in the discussion of the God “the idea of the Good” in Book VI-VII of the Republic and of the “beautiful itself” at the end of Diotima’s conversation with Socrates in the Symposium, which I discuss below; and he too stresses the importance of loving one’s neighbor as oneself, as can be seen by the divine love he shows toward every person he talks with! Truly was Jesus sent and taught by God the Father as He claimed!

Also, Socrates says in Plato’s Republic Book VII, 540a, that the philosopher-rulers of the ideal city described in this dialogue are not made to “behold the Good Itself [which is God]” and “use it as a pattern for the right ordering of the state and the citizens and themselves” until age 50, as Confucius claims not to have learned the mandate of Heaven until age 50! Apparently, Socrates was describing the age when he, a philosopher, beheld “the Good Itself.” This would mean that before age 50, he was only perhaps guessing at what the will of Heaven was. Given all the other resemblances between Socrates and Confucius, this one cannot be coincidental, for there are tens of other ages (such as 41, 49, 63, 72, 38) at which Socrates could have beheld it!

In the chapter “Confucius and Socrates Compared” of the book CONFUCIUS AND SOCRATES Teaching Wisdom by Sanderson Beck

http://san.beck.org/C%26S-Contents.html, Beck reveals more similarities between these two wisest of men. Here are just a few:

Confucius and Socrates have inspired countless men and women over two dozen centuries.

His mother died in 527 BC, and after a period of mourning he began his career as a teacher, usually traveling about and instructing the small body of disciples that had gathered around him. [So were Socrates and Jesus consistently surrounded by many of the same disciples! Some disciples who frequently accompanied Socrates were Plato, Chaerephon, Alcibiades, Apollodorus, and Phaedrus.]

Confucius is credited with being the first professional teacher of higher education in China, and their first and greatest ethical philosopher. In Greece the professional sophists sprang up during Socrates' lifetime, but though he remained an "amateur" or informal teacher, it was Socrates who was recognized by Aristotle [in the Nicomachean Ethics] for introducing the study of ethics in addition to the use of inductive logic and universal definitions. [So is Jesus the originator of all ethics and the greatest teacher of ethics!]

In the case of Confucius, the primary source used is The Analects which was compiled by disciples within a generation or two of Confucius' death.[Similarly, others who were made by God to resemble Jesus including Buddha, Socrates, Epictetus, as well as Jesus himself, did not write their teachings down, but their teachings and lives were faithfully recorded by their disciples shortly after they died! This is no coincidence, for most wise men in history wrote down their teachings, such as Plato, Aristotle, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aquinas, Shakespeare, Descartes, Kant, Hegel, etc.! So don’t doubt that the Gospels are accurate portraits of Jesus!]

These anecdotes and conversations between Confucius and his disciples (students) are simply and realistically portrayed, as no attempt is made to write a long, philosophical treatise. [So do Plato’s Dialogues about Socrates and the Four Gospels about Jesus consist largely of conversations between each of these men and their respective disciples! This is no coincidence, for almost no philosophers other than Plato wrote dialogues, but wrote treatises instead! And in all three sets of works, Confucius, Socrates, and Jesus are by far the most prominent characters! SO DON’T DOUBT THAT THE GOSPELS ARE ACCURATE PORTRAITS OF JESUS!]

Socrates intentionally stayed out of politics due to his spiritual guidance, but did become an advisor and teacher to some who did engage in political leadership. Similarly Confucius although he tried to become politically effective, served mainly as an advisor and educator of politicians. [Truly are these men unique, for a very small percentage of the world’s men advise and educate politicians!]

Both of these men spent their lives learning and seeking wisdom and the good life...It would be hard to find anyone who loved to learn more than Confucius and Socrates. They turned every situation in which they found themselves into an exploration of some topic. [Jesus too loves the truth, for he loves God the Father and Himself and all truth displays their glory!]

Although they both were cheerful and friendly, they were remarkably unemotional. Neither one of them allowed himself to become a victim of fear or anger or jealousy or resentment. Somehow, perhaps due to their philosophic minds, they were able to handle criticism, threats, mockery, and abuse with such understanding that they were not perturbed by it at all. Their attitudes remained remarkably positive. Even though they were often judged to be failures by the world, neither one of them ever was known to become depressed or unhappy. There always seemed to be a joy and enthusiasm with Confucius and an even-temperedness with Socrates. [Nor did Jesus have fear: “Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul.” (Matt. 10:28) He too certainly was ever-joyful, for his two greatest commandments are to “love God with your whole heart, with all your soul, and with all your heart,” and to “love your neighbor as yourself,” (Matt. 22:34-40) and love involves taking pleasure in the object of love! (I discuss the meaning of love in the conclusion of this book) Nor did Jesus resent people who treated him cruelly: truly did he say about those who were torturing him on the day of His crucifixion: “Forgive them Father, for they know not what they do”!]

The specific virtues they discussed are again amazingly similar. [And they are amazingly similar also to the virtues of Jesus and Paul who received revelations from Jesus according to the Book of Acts. Many of the same Greek words called virtues by Paul, such as dikaiosune (justice), enkrateia (self-control or “inner strength”), and sofia (wisdom), are called virtues by Socrates too in Plato’s Dialogues! Truly do Paul and Jesus depict what an excellent human being is like!]

While Confucius died at age 72, Socrates died at age 70 or 71. This is no coincidence: in ancient Greece and Rome the average life expectancy was only about 28 years! www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/340119/life-expectancy God determines the time and manner in which people die: as I discuss below, Alexander the Great died at age 33 to show that he was made to corroborate the events of the life of Jesus who also died at age 33, and Julius Caesar died the way he did to show that Jesus died the way he did.

-SOCRATES, AS HE APPEARS IN PLATO’S DIALOGUES

This conclusion will appear less absurd if you realize that Part Two testifies very strongly that God directed the circumstances of the lives of the historical persons of the Old Testament such as Isaac, Joseph, and Solomon to show that Jesus was depicted truly in the Four Gospels. These persons lived just as Socrates did, so it is not necessary to limit the symbols of Christ to the people described in the Bible. Now, consider the following similarities between Socrates and Jesus:

-“He [Chaerephon] actually went to Delphi [the site of APOLLO, the SUN god, a symbol of Christ] and asked this question of the god…whether there was ANYONE WISER THAN MYSELF. The priestess replied that there was NO ONE.” (Apology 21a) Truly, “In Christ are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” (Colossians 2:3)

-Socrates: “To let no day pass without discussing human excellence and all the other subjects about which you hear me talking and examining both myself and others is really the very best thing that a man can do, and life without this sort of examination is not worth living.” (Apol. 38a) Jesus indeed talked about nothing but God and how God wants humans to live, in order to make the people to whom he talked to be excellent human beings. There are very few people who make it their life’s work to spend all day talking to people about human excellence, although we are commanded to “store up” the “sayings of wise men” inside of us and have them “constantly on our lips” (Proverbs 22:18)! In fact, I seem to myself to be the only person of hundreds of people I have met who follows this command, other than Socrates and Jesus! (I say this not to brag, but merely to emphasize how unique Socrates and Jesus are, as well as to provoke change in you)

-Socrates: “God appointed me, as I supposed and believed, to the duty of leading the philosophical life, examining myself and others.” (Apology 28e)

“It is literally true, even if it sounds rather comical, that God has specially appointed me to this city, as though it were a large thoroughbred horse which because of its great size is inclined to be lazy and needs the stimulation of some stinging fly.” (Apol. 30e)

“This duty I have accepted...in obedience to God’s commands given in oracles and dreams and in every other way that any other divine dispensation has ever impressed a duty upon a man.” (Apol. 33c) [Socrates claims to receive commands from God also in Phaedrus 242c to glorify love, as Jesus does]

“...[God] the Father who sent me...” (John 8:18)

“Jesus sent these twelve men out with the following instructions: ‘Do not go into the territory of the Gentiles, and enter not into a city of the Samaritans; but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Go and proclaim, saying, ‘The Kingdom of the heavens has drawn near!’ “ (Matthew 10:5-6) As Socrates confined his service to the territory of Athens throughout his life, so did Christ confine his service to the territory of Israel when He walked on Earth. God must have “specially appointed” Socrates to one city so that he could resemble Jesus in this respect!!!! AND NOT MANY PEOPLE CLAIM TO BE DIRECTLY COMMANDED BY GOD TO DO CERTAIN THINGS!

-Throughout the Phaedrus (239b, 241e, 249d, 263d, 279b [one of the last paragraphs]), Plato reports Socrates saying several times that his words are “divinely inspired.” E.g. After Socrates condemns the “love” that solely aims at sexual pleasure, as God often does through Paul whenever Paul condemns “fornication,” Socrates says: “Well, Phaedrus my friend, do you think, as I do, that I am DIVINELY INSPIRED?...Truly there seems to be a DIVINE presence in this spot, so that you must not be surprised if, as my speech proceeds, I become as one POSSESSED.” (238c-d) Later, he says, “the philosopher...drawing nigh to the DIVINE...is POSSESSED by a DEITY.” (250c-d) Similarly, Socrates agrees with Theodorus in the Sophist 216b-c that there is “something DIVINE about...any philosopher,” and agrees with Diotima in the passage quoted below from the ladder of love speech in the Symposium that a person like Socrates can have virtue only if God, the Beautiful itself, fills him with it. There is so much beauty and wisdom in the things Plato has Socrates say, and they are for the most part so extremely consistent with the Bible, that there is good reason to believe that at least some or even most of his sayings are “divinely inspired.” And many of the things said by Socrates in the Dialogues of Plato, who has an excellent memory and who was taught by Socrates, were likely said by Socrates himself. Thus, Jesus spoke truly when He said that the words He speaks come not from Himself but from God the Father! (John 14:10) NOT MANY PEOPLE CLAIM TO SPEAK FROM DIVINE INSPIRATION!!!

-When Socrates is in jail awaiting his soon to come death…

Crito: What was the dream about?

Socrates: I thought I saw a gloriously beautiful woman dressed in white robes, who came up to me and addressed me in these words: Socrates, ‘To the pleasant land of Phthia on the third day you shall come.’ (Crito 44b) Socrates here quotes Achilles, another type of the Antichrist. JESUS ROSE AGAIN ON THE THIRD DAY AFTER HE DIED, AND YOUR BODY WILL BE RESURRECTED AS WELL! I believe that God must have had it enter into Plato’s mind to write that sentence, without his knowing that he was thereby substantiating the Gospel, as He perhaps had him write some of the other sentences I quote in this section, such as the ones in the next paragraph. After all, He directed the writing of the Bible’s human authors!

-Socrates: “So one ought not to return a wrong or an injury to any person, whatever the provocation.” (Crito 49b) “And you may let anyone despise you as a fool and do you outrage, if he wishes, yes, and you may cheerfully let him strike you with that humiliating blow.” (Gorgias 527c) Jesus truly did say, as recorded in Matthew 5:39,44: “But I say to you not to resist evil; but whosoever strikes you on your right cheek, to him also the other...Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.” Most people do not react this way! And Socrates practiced what he preached: look at how kindly he speaks to the rude Thrasymachus of Book One of Plato’s Republic, to the rude Callicles of the Gorgias, and to the rude Anytus of the Meno.

-Just as Socrates desired, Jesus’ principal desire was to contemplate and glorify God the Father. Socrates and Jesus acted more on this desire than most people who have ever lived. In order to show this similarity, I will now quote the conclusion of Diotima’s speech, given to and narrated by Socrates, on the “ladder of Love,” about how one comes to love God (Symposium 210a-212b)!!! God is described in this speech as “the Beautiful Itself.” That this is God is hinted throughout this and many of more than twenty dialogues of Plato which I have studied with the utmost care. In this dialogue, it is hinted by the fact that the name of the woman who gives this speech, “Dio-tima,” who has seen the beautiful itself, means one who “honors God”; by the fact that the name used to describe her origin, mantinikh (Symposium 201d), is remarkably similar to the Greek word mantikh, which is used to describe a female who is a prophet or a person through whom God speaks (and Plato has a symbolic meaning behind many details of his dialogues; in fact, I see no objection to saying that this speech is indeed inspired by God, for it is completely consistent with the Bible); and by the italicized words below:

“And here, she said, you must follow me as closely as you can.

“Whoever has been initiated so far in the mysteries of Love and has viewed all these aspects of the beautiful in due succession, is at last drawing near the final revelation. And now, Socrates, there bursts upon him that wondrous vision which is the very soul of the beauty he has toiled so long for. It is an everlasting loveliness which neither comes nor goes, which neither flowers nor fades, for such beauty is the same on every hand, the same then as now, here as there, this way as that way, the same to every worshiper as it is to every other. Nor will his vision of the beautiful take the form of a face, or of hands, or of anything that is of the flesh. It will be neither words, nor knowledge, nor a something that exists in something else, such as a living creature, or the earth, or the heavens, or anything that is--but subsisting of itself and by itself in an eternal oneness, while every lovely thing partakes of it in such sort that, however much the parts may wax and wane, it will be neither more nor less, but still the same inviolable whole...

“And if, my dear Socrates, Diotima went on, man's life is ever worth the living, it is when he has attained this vision of the beautiful itself. [ONLY GOD CAN BRING YOU HAPPINESS, BROTHER] And once you have seen it, you will never be seduced again by the charm of gold, of dress, of comely boys, or lads just ripening to manhood; you will care nothing for the beauties that used to take your breath away and kindle such a longing in you, and many others like you, Socrates, to be always at the side of the beloved and feasting your eyes upon him, so that you would be content, if it were possible, to deny yourself the grosser necessities of meat and drink, so long as you were with him.

“But if it were given to man to gaze on beauty's very self--unsullied, unalloyed, and freed from the mortal taint that haunts the frailer loveliness of flesh and blood--if, I say, it were given to man to see the heavenly beauty face to face, would you call his, she asked me, an unenviable life, whose eyes had been opened to the vision, and who had gazed upon it in true contemplation until it had become his own forever?

“And remember, she said, that it is when he looks upon beauty's visible presentment, and only then, that a man will be quickened with the true, and not the seeming, virtue--for it is virtue's self that quickens him, not virtue's semblance. And when he has brought forth and reared this perfect virtue, he shall be called the friend of God, and if ever it is given to man to put on immortality, it shall be given to him.

“This Phaedrus- this gentleman- was the doctrine of Diotima. I [Socrates] was convinced, and in that conviction I try to bring others to the same creed, and to convince them that, if we are to make this gift our own, Love will help our mortal nature more than all the world. And this is why I say that every man of us should honor [the God of] Love, and this is why I practice and worship all the things of Love myself, and bid others do the same. And all my life I shall pay the power and the manliness of Love such homage as I can.” So does Jesus have the same zeal to know and exalt the God of Love, and so should we!!! “Whatsoever you do, do it for the glory of God.” (1 Corinthians 10:31)

-Alcibiades speaking about Socrates: “Know you that beauty and wealth and honor, which many people care about, are of no value to him, and are utterly despised by him... When I opened him, and looked within at his serious purpose, I saw in him divine and golden images of such fascinating beauty that I was ready to do in a moment whatever Socrates commanded: they may have escaped the observation of others, but I saw them.” (Symposium 216d) Jesus too had God dwelling in Him!

-Although many people resemble Jesus, because He is God, He is still very exalted over all human beings. Some sin is attributed in the Bible to almost every symbol of Christ in the Old Testament, including David’s lust for Bathsheba, and Solomon’s lust for tons of women. Notice how Socrates is similarly described in the following two passages:

“The most amazing thing about him is the fact that he is ABSOLUTELY UNIQUE; THERE’S NO ONE LIKE HIM, AND I DON’T BELIEVE THERE EVER WAS... unless of course you take a leaf out of my book and COMPARE HIM NOT WITH HUMAN BEINGS, but with sileni and satyrs- and the same with his ideas...Anyone listening to Socrates for the first time would find his arguments simply laughable...but if you open up his arguments, and really get into the skin of them, you’ll find that they’re the ONLY arguments in the world that have any sense at all, and that NOBODY ELSE’S are so GODLIKE, so rich in images of virtue, or so peculiarly, so entirely pertinent to those inquiries that help the seeker on his way to the goal of being noble and good.” (Symposium 221c-222a)

The last line of the Phaedo: “Such was the end of our comrade, who was…of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and the wisest and most upright [or “just”] man.”

God controls many more painters than Raphael! He also made Jacques-Louis David paint The Death of Socrates, the most famous painting of Socrates, in the manner he did! For in the painting, Socrates sits in the middle, with six disciples on his left and six on his right, a total of TWELVE! One of the disciples pass the cup of hemlock to him, as if it is the cup of wine that Jesus drank with His twelve disciples at the Last Supper! And God has David make Socrates point up to Heaven, as if to show that that is where the Son of God went a few days after the Last Supper and that he currently dwells in Heaven!

And don’t forget that both Socrates and Jesus were unjustly killed by the authorities of Athens and Jerusalem, respectively. Only a small percentage of the world’s people have been put to death by their city’s government, let alone unjustly.

All of the above evidence leads me to conclude with confidence that God ordered Socrates to live the way he did (as Socrates himself claims in the Apology), filled Socrates with His virtue, directed Plato to say certain things, filled Plato and Aristotle similar virtue, and even had the government of Athens put Socrates to death to show that God did indeed dwell in Jesus’ body and lived and spoke just as he is said to have lived and spoken in the Four Gospels!

PLATO Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, who are often grouped together and lived within one century in Athens, are three of the wisest persons who ever lived, just as God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are the three wisest persons in the universe and all dwell in the heavenly city. I who have carefully studied many of the great works of Western Philosophy including over twenty of Plato's dialogues affirm that Alfred North Whitehead’s famous statement that “the history of Western Philosophy is a series of footnotes to Plato” is no exaggeration. But Socrates, who is the principal character of almost everything Plato has written, and Aristotle possess a similar degree of Plato’s wisdom, just as all the persons of the Trinity share the same wisdom. For, Plato was Socrates’s greatest student, and Aristotle was Plato’s greatest student.

Diogenes Laertius reports that according to a book by Speusippus, a pupil of Plato who lived centuries before Christ's incarnation, a report circulated in Athens that the bridegroom of Plato's mother saw a vision of God which forbid him to have sex with Plato's mother until Plato was born. If this was true, then Plato, the second person of the "Trinity" Socrates-Plato-Aristotle, was born of a virgin! This does not seem to be a lie, for so are tons of people resembling Jesus in very unique and very numerous ways said to be born of a virgin, including historical persons such as Alexander the Great & Caesar Augustus the first Roman Emperor! This info is mentioned in the book The Virgin Birth of Christ on pg. 325 on the following website: http://books.google.com/books?id=qG7f9wT1uqIC&pg=RA2-PA325&lpg=RA2-PA325&dq=plato+virgin+birth&source=web&ots=KvhfqBvLCA&sig=tva6Y6FKSuO1vy8zg8MxhAwHzaY&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result#PRA2-PA325,M1

ARISTOTLE
-God had Aristotle discourse on all subjects to show that God will speak to us about all subjects in Paradise! He talked of ethics, politics, physics, metaphysics, poetry, psychology, biology, astronomy, logic, rhetoric, and the list goes on!!! Aristotle is said to have written 400 books, though not all of them survive. We, who should imitate God and me who am His symbol, should beg God to enlighten us so that we too can “have wise sayings constantly on our lips” (Proverbs 22:18) when we speak to the lost sheep around us!!!
-God indeed is the Prime Mover of the Universe and constantly talks and thinks about Himself, as Aristotle talks about in Book VIII of the Physics and Book XII of the Metaphysics, for He “moved” all the great authors of Western Civilization to talk only about Him, even without their realizing it! We too should “continually offer a sacrifice of praise to God with our lips”!!!! (Hebrews 13:15)
-The whole Nicomachean Ethics is about the virtues of God and the virtues of the Christian, who is His image!!! God teaches us in that book that we are to only do good to all people, for the virtues he mentions are generosity, magnificence (generosity on a large scale), friendliness, and wit (as Paul tells us to season our talk with salt!). The virtues listed in the Bible, the Ethics, Plato’s works, Aquinas’ works, Dante’s works, etc. are all the same to show that God is the author of all those books!!! Like Plato’s Republic, the other most famous book of Ancient Greece about ethics, it has TEN books because God truly did issue ten commandments about ethics!!!

De Anima

On the Soul

De Anima

Raphael's "School of Athens" is a symbol of the great learning that will go on in the New Jerusalem (symbolized by Ancient Athens) under God the Father and God the Son (symbolized by Plato and Aristotle, at the center of the painting). For "this is eternal life, to know God and His Son Jesus Christ." (John 17:3) I even showed towards the end of my discussion of Solomon (a type of Christ) in Part Two that in the New Jerusalem, God will perhaps answer every question we ask, just as Solomon answered everything asked of him by the Queen of Sheba in 1 Kings 10. God perhaps moved Raphael to paint Plato in the likeness of Leonardo da Vinci to point to the fact that Leonardo too is part of an image of the Holy Trinity: Leonardo-Michelangelo-Raphael!
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AESCHYLUS ("disgrace")-SOPHOCLES ("Key to Wisdom")-EURIPIDES: The Father-The Son ("Wisdom")-The Holy Spirit
All three of these writers throughout their lives wrote sets of FOUR plays, the first THREE of which formed a trilogy, while the FOURTH one, a satyr [the demonic being which Socrates is compared to] play, seemed very different in content from the other three! God CONCEALED this fact by having many of the satyr plays vanish and many of the trilogies surviving only in part, but He did preserve some trilogies: the Oresteia (i.e. about Orestes) of Aeschylus and the Oedipus plays of Sophocles! Satan, therefore, has each of these writers symbolize the fact that The Trinity, symbolized by each of these tragedians, is the true author of all four Gospels which are all about Him, and that one of the Gospels which it authored looks quite different from the synoptic Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke! Satan does this again with Apollonius’ Conics, as I will later discuss!

These three men were possessed by demons, because their plays were principally directed at bringing their captive audiences to worship demons like Zeus & Dionysus in place of the true God:

-Zeus, Lord of heaven!...Zeus, Lord of hospitality,
In grateful awe I bend to thee. Aeschylus's Agamemnon.

-Last line of Sophocles's Antigone: Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness [these demons are quite intelligent, aren't they?]; and reverence towards the gods must be inviolate.

--O Bacchus...son begotten of Zeus; appear, O king, with thine attendant Thyiads, who in night-long frenzy dance before thee, the giver of good gifts, Iacchus! Antigone

-In the Bacchae, Euripides threatens people with utter destruction if they don't worship Dionysus joyously

--Meaning of Euripides' name: http://www.behindthename.com/nmc/gre-anci.php Derived from the Greek elements ευ "good" and ‘ριπη (rhipe) "throw, swing". The related verb "ripto" can mean to "cast a net," and to "throw to and fro." Thus, Euripides was thoroughly controlled by a demon[s].

-AESCHYLUS’S AGAMEMNON (Written in 5th Century B.C.)6

God is mentioned on practically every page of Agamemnon, as we too should speak continuous praise of God (Hebrews 13:15)!!!!!! Everything said about God is remarkably consistent with everything said about God in the Bible, including the following facts: (in parentheses, I mention other plays in which I recall these beliefs were expressed)

-The goddess Artemis is described as “undefiled” (v.133), as the God is described in the Bible as perfectly good.

-The gods are able to give people like Cassandra the power to predict the future, as the God of the Bible gives this power to Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, etc. (Sophocles’s Oedipus)

-Both the gods and God refuse to hear the prayers of wicked men. (v. 396)

-Both the gods and God reward good and punish evil, such as the cruelty of the Greeks to the Trojans. (pg. 39) (Sophocles’s Antigone & Euripides’s Bacchae)

-As it is said in 1 John that God is love, Agamemnon speaks of “the kind eyes of God”!!! (v.952: my favorite phrase of the whole play!)

-Both the gods and God particularly favor the poor, because the poor are more likely to be “just” than the rich (v.773).

-Both the gods and God are particularly angered by people who exalt themselves instead of exalting God, so much so that Agamemnon is even afraid to walk on expensive robes laid out for him by Clytaemestra lest a “god’s eyes of hatred strike me from afar” (v. 947), and says that “such a state becomes the gods and none beside.” (v. 922) Truly did God say “I will not give my glory to another.” (including the Virgin Mary, friends who practice Catholicism and worship Mary) (Isaiah 48:11) (the 1st choral ode of Sophocles’s Antigone, where Zeus destroys a boaster)

-Both the gods and God require to be prayed to. He has the Chorus call Apollo, the SUN god, paiana, which means “healer,” “physician,” or “savior,” as God the SON heals our spiritual sicknesses and thereby saves us! (v.146) Many gods in the few centuries preceding Jesus’ coming were considered “saviors” and “healers,” especially the god of medicine Asclepius/Aeschulapius.7 Also, the Colossus of Rhodes, which has been resurrected as the Statue of Liberty, was a statue of Apollo the SUN GOD and had a crown of SEVEN thorns, just as Jesus has a crown of thorns and is much larger than any human because He is everywhere! Furthermore, Apollo is very benevolent toward Orestes in Aeschylus’s Eumenides, by protecting him from destruction by the Furies. (Bacchus/Dionysus is said in Sophocles’s Antigone to bring “cleansing”)

-Aeschylus even calls God the Good Shepherd who knows the hearts of all men, as Jesus calls Himself the Good Shepherd in John 10!!! “In joy likewise they show joy’s semblance, and torture the face to the false smile. Yet the GOOD SHEPHERD, who knows his flock, the eyes of men cannot lie to him that with water of feigned love seem to smile from the true heart.” (v.793-798)

-The only “error” about God which I found after a careful re-reading is that there are said to be TWELVE gods, but nevertheless Aeschylus repeatedly emphasized that one, Zeus, symbol of God the Son, was supreme over the other 11, symbols of Christ’s disciples perhaps, excluding the traitor Judas! Compare “Zeus, Zeus, cause of all (panaitiou), prime mover. For what thing without Zeus is done among mortals? What here is without God’s blessing?” (v.1485-87) with: “[The LORD] works all things according to the counsel of His will. (Ephesians 1:11) Indeed, for Zeus as well as God has control over the actions of men (such as sending people to war) and over nature (including storms [pg.55] and thunder [pg.49]).

-A god even orders the sacrifice of the “innocent blood” (v.215) of Iphigenia at the hands of her father Agamemnon King of the Greeks for the victory of the Greeks in war and for the salvation of the Greeks from suffering such as hunger. (v. 192) TRULY DID KING OF THE WORLD GOD THE FATHER ORDER HIMSELF TO SACRIFICE HIS INNOCENT SON JESUS TO HELP PEOPLE ACHIEVE “VICTORY” [a word often used in Revelation 2-3, Psalms, and Isaiah to describe salvation] AND SAVE PEOPLE FROM SUFFERING! (God appears to have concealed this resemblance between Jesus & Iphigenia by calling her a “she,” perhaps in part so that the Gospel writers wouldn’t be accused of basing their account on plays like Agamemnon!)

-PROMETHEUS (AESCHYLUS'S PROMETHEUS BOUND)
-hands and other parts of his body "nailed" by the god Hephaestus, at the order of the god Zeus, "the Father"
-he is a god (verse 91)
-he knows everything (100)
-punished because of his “excessive love of man” (122) which caused him to give man “precedence” over himself so that he chose to suffer for man’s well-being (291)
-brought fire to man (255), as Jesus brings “light” to the world (John 8:12)
-refers to the “cup” of his suffering (378), the same way Jesus refers to his suffering (Matthew 26: “let this cup be taken from me”)
-gave minds to humans (443), including the power to tell the future and to know how to make medicine, ships, and more
-death is not decreed for him (935 and several other places in the play), as Jesus never really died (only His human body did, for three days and three nights)
-his “crucifixion” is accompanied by a disruption of the natural order, including a violent storm (1080-89), as is Jesus’ crucifixion (Matt. 27)
-last line of the play: “you see me, how I suffer, how unjustly”

-OEDIPUS (SOPHOCLES'S OEDIPUS THE KING & OEDIPUS AT COLONUS)

-both had a father who was/is a king (for God the Father rules all things)
-both had their lives threatened at a young age by a king who sought to kill them because he feared having his power usurped
-both had the tops of both their feet pierced! (Greek: diatorous podoin akmas=”piercings in the highest points of the feet”) (Oedipus the King verse 1034)
-both are reared in a country foreign to their birthplace, before they return there: as Oedipus went from Thebes to Corinth to Thebes, Jesus went from Nazareth to Egypt to Nazareth
-both save many people from destruction, for Oedipus by being the ONE person who could answer the Sphinx’s riddle stops the famine that the Sphinx had been inflicting on the people of Thebes; and his dead body “renders to you [the city of Theseus] a protection stronger than many shields or spears brought from outside…In this way, the city you live in shall never be ravaged by the men sprung from the sowing.” (Oedipus at Colonus 1524-25,1533-34) "There is only ONE name under heaven [Jesus'] by which men can be SAVED." (Acts 4:12)
-both become kings, for Jesus’ kingdom, “the kingdom of God, is among you” (Luke 17), insofar as Christians now are being ruled by Jesus who is their Lord
-both have extreme love/pity for their subjects. Oedipus’s intense desire displayed at the beginning of Oedipus the King to save his Theban subjects from pain is symbolic of Jesus’ desire to save His people from all pain
-both are exiled from their cities (see Luke 23:26-32)
-both have miraculous circumstances surrounding their deaths. “That man was taken away…if any among mortals, by a miracle.” (Oedipus at Colonus 1664-65)
-both have bodies which have never been located after they died. Oedipus says to Theseus: “Do not ever reveal to any human being either where it [his body] is concealed or the region in which it lies.” (Oedipus at Colonus 1522-23) Truly was Jesus’ body never found because it was resurrected!

Like Hippolytus (discussed below), Oedipus has many unique resemblances with other types of Christ as well, and thus indirectly with Christ:
-both Oedipus & Cyrus the Great (resemblances to Christ mentioned in Part Two) are abandoned as children on a mountain after their father/grandfather receives a prophecy that he will have his throne usurped by the child against his will, which leads the father (King Laius) & grandfather (King Astyages) to try to kill those children. Both children are saved on a mountain by a shepherd. (Herodotus’s History 1.107-112)
-both become rulers over many people

-both Oedipus & Isaac (resemblances to Christ mentioned in Part Two) have their lives threatened at a young age by a father who seeks to kill them (Cf. Genesis 22), and both become blind

-both Oedipus & Joseph (resemblances to Christ mentioned in Part Two) have their lives threatened at an early age by family members (Joseph’s brothers vs. Oedipus’s father), save a city from famine after they answer a riddle that no one else could answer, and both then become rulers in their respective lands (in Thebes and in Egypt, respectively; interestingly, there is a Thebes in Egypt, so Joseph too ruled over a “Thebes”)

-PHILOCTETES (SOPHOCLES'S PHILOCTETES)

-"they would never take the towers of Troy, unless they persuaded Philoctetes & brought him from the island where he is now living" (v. 610-14); "Neoptolemus: 'Don't you think it is disgraceful to tell lies?' Odysseus: 'Not if the lie [to persuade Philoctetes to come to Troy] brings salvation!' " (v. 108-09) As Philoctetes was the one man who could save the Greeks from further being destroyed at Troy, so is there "only one name under heaven by which men can be saved": Jesus! (Acts 4:12)

-judged "first in valor" at Troy (1420), as Jesus is first in every virtue

-as Philoctetes suffered extreme pain & was abandoned by all people because of a serpent biting his heel (265-67, 281), so was Jesus abandoned by all when He was crucified, which event the Bible describes as the ancient serpent Satan bruising Jesus' heel (Genesis 3:15), as seen in the case of Achilles as well. Thus, Philoctetes shows us how much Jesus suffered out of love for us: "Papai, Apappapai, papa papa papa papai! I beg you, if you have a sword handy, strike at my heel! (exclamations transliterated from Greek, 745-47) "Oh death, death, why can you never come!" (797)

-Philoctetes is closely associated with Heracles/Hercules, a type of the Antichrist: for instance, he has Heracles' bow & Heracles after descending from heaven appears to him & Neoptolemus the son of Achilles at the end of the play and tells Philoctetes that his suffering will be followed by glory just as was true for Heracles.

-THE GREEK GOD BACCHUS/DIONYSUS
Dionysus has been depicted as hung on a cross:

bacchus Bacchus crucified

I already discussed in Part One in my discussion of how dogs are symbols of God that God apparently created the Egyptian god Anubis, which has the nature of both dog and man and carries a cross in his hand, as a symbol of Christ. Also, Zeus/Jupiter, the king of the Greek and Roman gods, appears to have been created by God as a symbol of Christ as well insofar as he was far more prominent than the other 11 gods, and insofar as the 11 gods appear to be symbols of the 11 apostles with whom Christ associated after Judas betrayed Him; they would somewhat fittingly be considered “gods” because they have Christ’s nature imparted to them and because they along with other Christians will rule with Christ when Christ’s kingdom triumphs over all the Earth (Rev. 5:10). Dionysus (also called Bacchus) also seems to have been created by God as a symbol of Christ.

-Interestingly, according to pg. 63 of Edith Hamilton’s Mythology8, he was thought to take the form of a vine, just as Jesus called Himself “the vine” (John 15), and was thought to die every winter and be resurrected in the spring, just as Jesus died and was resurrected! In an address by Lars Adelskogh at the International Seminar "The Sanskrit and Buddhist Sources of the New Testament", Klavreström, Sweden, September 11, 2003 (final version),9 he says:

According to the myth, as recounted by Diodorus Siculus, the Titans dismembered the little Dionysus child and boiled his body-parts. However, Demeter collected the body-parts and restored Dionysus to life, so that "he experienced a new birth as though it were his first one". (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, 3:62)

-Adelskogh also says that “Dionysus was regarded as a physician that healed the sick...” as Jesus literally healed sick people like lepers and along with Socrates, as recorded often in Plato’s Dialogues, claimed to and did metaphorically “heal” sick souls (Lk. 9:12-13)

-“...and he possessed the ability to foresee the future,” as JESUS TRULY PROPHESIZES ABOUT THE RESURRECTION OF ALL HUMAN BODIES AND ETERNAL SALVATION AND ETERNAL DAMNATION.

-Adelskogh also says that: “there is a picture of him on a vase (about 400 B.C.) where he is hanging on a cross (a tree) above an altar table with vessels of wine,” as Jesus was crucified.

Here is some more interesting information about Dionysus from the Antigone and the Bacchae from my own careful studies of these plays:

---SOPHOCLES'S ANTIGONE

-“Let us visit all the temples of the gods with all-night dances, and may the BACCHIC GOD who shakes the land of Thebes be ruler!” (v. 152-54)

-“Dryas…for his mocking fury was pent by DIONYSUS in a rocky prison…He learned too late that he was mad in laying hands on the god, with mocking tongue; for he tried to check the inspired (“having gods inside”) women and the BACCHIC fire.” (955-65)

CHRIST TRULY FILLS HIS PEOPLE WITH HIS HOLY SPIRIT, WHICH IS SYMBOLIZED BY FIRE! (Acts 2:1) AND HE IS VERY ANGRY WITH PEOPLE WHO TRY TO TURN PEOPLE FROM HIM!

-Directly after Creon “repents” of having unjustly punished Antigone, the Chorus says the following:

“YOU WHO HAVE MANY NAMES, PRIDE OF THE CADMEAN BRIDE AND CHILD OF ZEUS the loud-thunderer, you who rule famous Italy…BACCHIC GOD, who live in the mother city of the Bacchants, Thebes…Upon you looks the fiery flame of pitch beyond the rock with double peak, where walk the Corcyrian Bacchic nymphs, and where is the Castalian spring…

[Footnote: “During the winter months, when APOLLO was with the Hyperboreans, his BROTHER DIONYSUS occupied his shrine at Delphi.” Since Apollo is the god of the Sun, which symbolizes the Son of God, this connection between Apollo & Dionysus is very interesting. Jesus does indeed “have many names”!!!]

“…Her do you honor above all cities…and now, since the whole city is gripped with SICKNESS, come with CLEANSING movement upon the slope of Parnassus, or upon the resounding strait! Hail, leader of the dance of the stars breathing fire, master of the voices heard by night, SON OF ZEUS, appear, KING, with your attendant Thyiads, who in their frenzy dance all night in honour of their lord Iacchus [i.e. BACCHUS]!” (1115-52) SO DOES CHRIST PASSIONATELY STIR UP HIS TRUE FOLLOWERS, AND CHRIST TRULY CLEANSES ALL SIN!!!

---EURIPIDES'S BACCHAE

-son of Zeus (the King of the “gods”) and son of the virgin Semele! Jesus was born of a virgin & of God!

-but he is himself a god at the same time as being the “son of God”!!! (v.85)

-enters into a human body so that people may honor him! (v.4, 22)

-performs miracles, such as releasing prisoners, as Christ’s Spirit does in the Acts of the Apostles!!!

-causes his worshippers to perform miracles, such as giving people to tear apart animals, as the Lord Jesus Christ allowed Samson to do in The Book of Judges!!! “WHAT IS THE SURPASSING GREATNESS OF GOD’S POWER IN US WHO BELIEVE”!!! (Ephesians 1:19)

-his death is remembered by eating the body and drinking the blood of a sacrificial animal, as the Passover Lamb symbolizes Jesus, and as Christians eat bread and drink wine/juice as a remembrance of the body and blood of Christ poured out for us when he died!

-he makes water come from a rock (v. 705), as Christ does in Exodus 17 & Numbers 20, for the rock is a symbol of Christ! (1 Corinthians 10:1-5) THIS IS NO COINCIDENCE! FOR WHAT HUMAN MIND WOULD THINK THAT WATER COULD COME FROM A ROCK!!!

-he is worshipped on a mountain flowing with milk and honey (v. 140) by people whom He fills with his spirit, as Christ will be worshipped on Mount Zion flowing with "milk and honey" by people whom He fills with His Spirit in the New Jerusalem!!!

-he is the god of wine, as Christ turns water into wine at the miracle of Cana (John 2) and because He is the source of wine and every other good for mankind (although He does not wish us to get drunk on wine)!!! Truly, as is said of Dionysus, “He is a God most fearsome but also a God most gentle to mankind” (v. 860)!!!

Therefore, listen to Dionysus as if you were listening to Jesus himself, and to his followers:

“SING AND DANCE FOR DIONYSUS AS THE RUMBLING DRUMS ROAR! GLORIFY HIM JOYOUSLY!!!” (v. 155-57, an echo of all of the Psalms!)

"Dionysus: You were late to understand us. When you ought to have known us, you did not.

Cadmus: We have realized our mistakes now. But your punishment is too severe.

Dionysus: Yes, but I am a god and was treated with hybris by you." [his last lines]

“SEEK THE LORD WHILE HE MAY BE FOUND.” (Isaiah 55:6)

THIS PLAY IS A WARNING TO THE WHOLE HUMAN RACE THAT WHOEVER DOES NOT WORSHIP JESUS AND HIS FATHER WILL SUFFER THE MOST DREADFUL PAINS FOR ETERNITY. PENTHEUS’S PUNISHMENT FOR NOT BELIEVING THAT DIONYSUS WAS GOD & THE SON OF GOD WAS TO HAVE “HARD-HITTING STONES” HURLED AT HIM (v. 1095) AND HIS SHOULDER, FOOT, ETC. WERE TORN OFF WHILE “HE SCREAMED IN PAIN.” (v. 1132) OH, DEAR BROTHERS, PLEASE DON’T LET THIS HAPPEN TO YOU. I PRAY FERVENTLY, FRIENDS, THAT THESE WORDS WILL SINK DEEP INTO YOU AND THAT YOU WILL WARN EVERYONE OF THESE DREADFUL TORMENTS. THIS IS VERY SERIOUS. HERE IS A PICTURE OF HIS AGONIZING DEATH, AT WHICH HE IS STONED AND TORN APART. UNLIKE PENTHEUS'S DEATH THOUGH, THE SINNER WILL BE CONSCIOUS OF SUCH INTENSE PAIN FOR ETERNITY, FOR JESUS THREATENS HIM WITH "ETERNAL PUNISHMENT" AND "ETERNAL FIRE" (Matthew 25:46,41)

PENTHEUSDEATH

-HIPPOLYTUS (EURIPIDES'S HIPPOLYTUS)

Hippolytus is falsely accused by Phaedra, the wife of the ruler of Troezen, of raping her, and consequently is sent to die; just as Joseph of Genesis 37-50, made by God to symbolize Jesus (see Part Two), is falsely accused by Pharaoh's wife, the wife of the ruler of Egypt, of raping her, and consequently sent to prison with two criminals, to one of whom he promises pardon & to the other of whom he does not (Genesis 40-41), just as Jesus does while on the cross in Luke 23. Thus, the scene of Joseph in prison is symbolic of Jesus' death, and the parallel between Hippolytus & Joseph is even stronger.

Hippolytus: "I alone of mortals have this privilege: I am your companion & converse with you [Artemis, the "most beautiful" of the goddesses on Olympus, a symbol of God the Father in this instance], hearing your voice, though without seeing your face." (84-86) Compare with Jesus: John 12:49: "I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, He gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak."

H.: "You see this light and earth; in these, there is no man-even if you should deny it-more virtuous by nature than me. For I know first of all how to revere the gods...I am not someone who laughs at his companions, father, but the same to friends when they're away as when nearby. And by one thing I am untouched, the thing by which you now think you have me: to this very moment my body is pure of sex." (994-1003) Artemis calls him "just" and rebukes Theseus for ordering his death. (1299)

-"Follow me, follow, hymning the child of Zeus, heavenly Artemis, who cares for us." (59-60)

-When asked to commit adultery: "How could I be base, who feel impure just hearing such things?" (654-55)

"His own team of horses [who were reared in his stables by him (1240)] destroyed him, and the curses from your mouth, whihc you prayed to your father, the lord of the sea, against your son." (1166-68) Similarly, God the Father who is symbolized by Poseidon who rules the sea & by Theseus, and the Jews whom Jesus brought into being (John 1:3) & secretly governed (without their knowing so) were responsible for Jesus' death on the cross. Humans are also compared to horses, which are intelligent animals, in the Iliad, another work authored by God; for Hector, another person made by God to resemble Jesus who tames human beings, is a tamer & "breaker of horses" just like Hippolytus is. Also, as the death of Hippolytus was accompanied by a "supernatural wave" & "deep roar from the Earth" (1201-02, 1206) near the "rock of Asclepius" (1209: rocks & Asclepius the healer god symbolize Jesus), so is the death of Jesus (as well as Alexander the Great & Julius Caesar) accompanied by supernatural occurences such as an earthquake & darknening of the sun during the daytime.

(from Wikipedia:) In Roman mythology, Virbius (or Virbio) was the name of the reborn Hippolytus. His cult believed that Artemis asked Asclepius to resurrect the young man since he had vowed chastity to the goddess. He was brought to Latium, Italy, where he reigned under the name of Virbio or Virbius. After being resurrected, he married Aricia. According to another tradition, he lived in a sacred forest near Aricia in Latium.
His name means "twice a man", in reference to the fact that he was mortally wounded, but brought back to life. He was worshipped as a god of the forest.

THE PARTHENON of Athens, Greece

Please consider this information along with the information I give about the Colossus of Rhodes and Statue of Liberty, Notre Dame and the Twin Towers of NY City, and other buildings before you reject the idea that there is a God who erected buildings to symbolize Himself.

http://www.sacredsites.com/europe/greece/interesting_parthenon_facts.html
The rectangular building (measured at the top step of its base to be 101.34 feet wide by 228.14 feet long) was constructed of brilliant white marble [symbol of Christ’s purity], surrounded by 46 great columns, roofed with tiles, and housed a nearly 40 foot tall statue of the goddess Athena. The statue, known as Athena Promachos, Athena the Champion, was made of wood, gold and ivory and could be seen from a distance of many miles. [So is Jesus a Colossus. (See my discussion about other places Jesus is depicted as a Colossus and the significance of this fact in my discussion of the great height of Achilles of Homer’s Iliad.)]

It is clear from Homer’s Odyssey, among other texts, that Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom, is a symbol of Jesus, who is called Wisdom. (see my discussion of Proverbs 1,8 which accompanies my discussion of Gen. 1:26 toward the beginning of my discussion of the types of Christ in the Old Testament.)

After the Parthenon was destroyed by the Persians in 480 BC, it was resurrected in the 33rd year: 447 BC. God had this happen to symbolize that Jesus was resurrected in His 33rd year, after His body had been destroyed!

The Greek word for Parthenon- Parthenos- means “Virgin,” and a statue of the Goddess of Wisdom used to dwell there. God had that happen to symbolize that Jesus, Wisdom or the Word Itself, did indeed inhabit a Virgin!!!!!!!!! That is why God made this perhaps the most famous monument of antiquity!!!!!!!! AND THAT’S WHY IT’S STILL STANDING TODAY SO THAT THE WHOLE WORLD MAY KNOW THE TRUTH!!!!!! And it was built by Pheidias, who is “universally regarded as the greatest of Greek sculptors”

TRULY DID GOD PROMISE KING DAVID ABOUT JESUS: “HE SHALL BUILD A HOUSE FOR MY NAME, AND I WILL STABLISH THE THRONE OF HIS KINGDOM FOR EVER.” (2 Samuel7:13) For the “house” Christ built was the body in which He dwelled on Earth! So actually, the Parthenon Temple is a symbol both of the Virgin Mary in whose womb Jesus was, and of Jesus’ body in which the Divine Nature dwelled!!! “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up…But he spoke concerning the temple of His body.” (John 2:19,21)

Although the nearby Temple of Hephaestus is the most complete surviving example of a Doric order temple, the Parthenon, in its day, was regarded as the finest. The temple, wrote John Julius Norwich, "Enjoys the reputation of being the most perfect Doric temple ever built. Even in antiquity, its architectural refinements were legendary… Some studies of the Acropolis, including the Parthenon, conclude that many of its proportions approximate the golden ratio. [So is Jesus and the other two persons of the Trinity the most perfect, beautiful, being.]

Shortly after this [in 5th century], the Parthenon was converted to a Christian church. In Byzantine times it became the Church of the Parthenos Maria (Virgin Mary), or the Church of the Theotokos (Mother of God). It was the fourth most important pilgrimage in the Eastern Roman Empire after Constantinople, Ephessos and Thessalonica. [These facts confirm that God intended the Parthenon as a symbol of the Virgin Mary’s body.]

In 1687, the Parthenon suffered its greatest blow when the Venetians under Francesco Morosini attacked Athens, and the Ottomans fortified the Acropolis and used the building as a gunpowder magazine. On 26 September a Venetian mortar, fired from the Hill of Philopappus, blew the magazine up and the building was partly destroyed. [Jesus can be attacked but never destroyed!]

Here are some other buildings which used to be found in the Parthenon:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Aabo%3Atlg%2C0525%2C001&query=1%3A24%3A6
Pausanias, Description of Greece
There is also a statue of Phrixus the son of Athamas carried ashore to the Colchians by the ram. Having sacrificed the animal to some god or other, presumably to the one called by the Orchomenians Laphystius, he has cut out the thighs in accordance with Greek custom and is watching them as they burn. [Truly was Jesus the “Lamb of God” (John 1:29) sacrificed for our sins. For a lamb is a young ram.] Next come other statues, including one of Heracles strangling the serpents as the legend describes. [Truly does Jesus, of whom Heracles is a type, strangle Satan, symbolized by the serpent. (ex. In The Book of Revelation)] There is Athena too coming up out of the head of Zeus, and also a bull dedicated by the Council of the Areopagus on some occasion or other, about which, if one cared, one could make many conjectures. [Truly was Jesus “dedicated” for our sins, for in Numbers 19 He is symbolized by the sacrificed cow, the female version of a bull.] and there are statues of Zeus… The statue of Athena is upright, with a tunic reaching to the feet, and on her breast the head of Medusa is worked in ivory. She holds a statue of Victory about four cubits high, and in the other hand a spear; at her feet lies a shield and near the spear is a serpent. [Truly did Jesus, symbolized by Athena, bruise the head of the serpent, Satan. (Gen. 3:15)]

ALEXANDER THE GREAT

alex Alexander the Great

-BRIEFER VERSION:

-both said to be born of a virgin
-both called the "son of God"
-Magi see a supernatural portent (in his case, a temple being set on fire) which signals how unusual Alexander & Jesus are
-both conquer much of the world (for Jesus rules people everywhere)
-both said to be miraculously handsome (The Messiah is "fairer than the sons of men" [Psalms 45:2))
-both never lose a battle (for God's plans always succeed)
-both are among the most virtuous men who ever lived (according to Montaigne)
-as Jesus died at age 33 in AD 33, so did Alexander die at age 33 in 323 BC!

-EXTENDED VERSION:

Alexander the Great conquered the second largest empire in the time before Jesus’ birth, the largest being the empire of Cyrus the Great and the third largest being the Roman Empire which was ruled by Julius Caesar and then Caesar Augustus.11 As these men reigned over much of the Earth, so does and will Jesus reign over the whole Earth, although His reign is more hidden now! In fact, in Daniel 7, five successive kingdoms are all mentioned consecutively, as if they all resembled one another: the Babylonian Empire under Nebuchadnezzar, the Persian Empire under Cyrus the Great, the Empire of Alexander the Great, the Roman Empire of Caesar, and the final empire of the “Son of man.” As I show elsewhere in this essay, Cyrus the Great and Julius Caesar were undoubtedly made by God to highly resemble Christ. This fact suggests that Alexander the Great too was made by God to highly resemble Christ, as he too was the ruler of one of the three largest ancient empires. (Nebuchadnezzar’s empire was apparently merely the 18th largest ancient empire,12 as is fitting, for he probably resembles Christ much less than the 3 others)

Alexander, Cyrus (in Herodotus’s History I.204), and Jesus are said to have never lost a battle, for “many designs are in a man’s mind, but it is the LORD’s plan that is accomplished.” (Proverbs 19:21) In other words, Jesus the Lord succeeds in whatever He plans. Similarly, it is said of King David that “the LORD gave David victory wherever he went.” (2 Samuel 8:6) This is not true of many people in history! Therefore, Alexander was made to resemble Christ just as Cyrus and David were.

According to five historians of antiquity (Arrian, Curtius, Diodorus, Justin, and Plutarch), after his visit to the Oracle of Ammon at Siwa, rumors spread that the Oracle had revealed Alexander's father to be Zeus, rather than Philip. In support of this, Plutarch (Alexander 3.1,3) claims that Philip avoided Olympias' bed because of her affinity for sleeping in the company of snakes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great#In_ancient_and_modern_culture
TRULY WAS JESUS BORN OF A VIRGIN!

http://www.livescience.com/history/top10_alexander_great-1.html

While in Egypt, Alexander also made the dangerous journey across the desert to the shrine of Zeus Ammon. It is said that he was guided by ravens and blessed with rain. Upon his arrival, the priest apparently told him he was the son of Zeus. TRULY IS JESUS THE SON OF GOD.

,13 Alexander was born the sixth of Hecatombaeon [7], which month the Macedonians call Lous, the same day that the temple of Artemis of Ephesus was burnt [8]; which Hegesias of Magnesia makes the occasion of a conceit, frigid enough to have stopped the conflagration. The temple, he says, took fire and was burnt while its mistress was absent, assisting at the birth of Alexander. And all of the Magi (twn magwn, the genitive plural form of oi magoi) who happened to be then at Ephesus, looking upon the ruin of this temple to be the forerunner of some other calamity, ran about the town, beating their faces, and crying that this day had brought forth something that would prove fatal and destructive to all Asia.

When Jesus is born, several Magi (magoi, another form of the same Greek word used in the passage above by Plutarch!) see a star in the East (Matt. 2:1-2), which is as extraordinary a sign of Jesus’s identity as the fire in the temple is of Alexander’s! Truly did Magi come to worship Jesus after seeing an extraordinary sign in the skies!

Alexander was taught by Aristotle, who apparently is a symbol of one of three persons of the Trinity along with Socrates and Plato, as I mention towards the end of my discussion of Socrates. Similarly, Jesus was instructed by God the Father about what to say and do (John 14:10), and has hidden in him “all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge (Colossians 2:3), for Aristotle was extremely knowledgeable about many subjects!

Alexander the Great apparently was extremely unique insofar as he possessed many different and somewhat rare virtues, as Jesus possessed all virtues. Even today, many of Alexander’s virtues are unfortunately not very widespread. I base this characterization of Alexander largely on the following quotation from Montaigne’s Essays, Book 2, Ch. 36: “Of the most excellent men,”14in which essay he characterizes the people he judges to be the THREE GREATESTMEN he has ever known: Homer, Alexander the Great, and Epaminondas. (On the other hand, in “On Cruelty” in Book 2, Ch. 11, he calls SOCRATES & Cato the Younger the two “most perfect” souls he has ever known.) This quotation from Montaigne, perhaps the most famous essayist of all time, is trustworthy, for Montaigne met and closely analyzed many people whom he met in person and in books. It is clear that he carefully read many books, especially historical ones such as Plutarch’s Lives in which Alexander is written about, for there are usually several quotations from classical authors on nearly every page of the hundreds of pages he wrote:

"[There were] so many excellent virtues as he [Alexander] was master of: justice, temperance, liberality, truth in his word, love towards his own people, and humanity towards those he overcame; for his manners, in general, seem in truth incapable of any manner of reproach, although some particular and extraordinary actions of his may fall under censure...As to Clytus, the fault was more than redeemed; and that very action, as much as any other whatever, manifests the goodness of his nature, a nature most excellently formed to goodness...And who will consider withal his so many military virtues, his diligence, foresight, patience, discipline, subtlety, magnanimity, resolution, and good fortune, wherein (though we had not had the authority of Hannibal to assure us) he was the first of men, the admirable beauty and symmetry of his person, even to a miracle, his majestic port and awful mien, in a face so young, ruddy, and radiant [Jesus the Messiah King is called “fairer [in beauty] than the children of men” (Psalm 45:2)]...the excellence of his knowledge and capacity; the duration and grandeur of his glory, pure, clean, without spot or envy, and that long after his death it was a religious belief that his very medals brought good fortune to all who carried them about them; and that more kings and princes have written his actions than other historians have written the actions of any other king or prince whatever [as Jesus is probably the most famous and written about person in the world! And has anyone not heard of Alexander the Great?!]; and that to this very day the Mohammedans, who despise all other histories, admit of and honour his alone, by a special privilege: whoever, I say, will seriously consider these particulars, will confess that, all these things put together, I had reason to prefer him before CAESAR himself, who alone could make me doubtful in my choice [of who the three greatest men are]....They were in many things equal, and peradventure CAESAR had some greater qualities they were two fires, or two torrents, overrunning the world by several ways."

It is of the utmost interest that both Montaigne and Plutarch notice that Alexander and Caesar are “in many things equal.” In Plutarch’s Parallel Lives, Plutarch almost always pairs a biography about a famous Greek with a biography about a famous Roman whom that Greek resembles perhaps more than any other Greek, and Plutarch chose to pair Alexander with Caesar! This is very interesting because, as I will soon show, very many of the circumstances of Julius Caesar’s life were undoubtedly planned by God to resemble many of the circumstances of the life of Jesus Christ [PLEASE CONSIDER THAT SECTION CAREFULLY]; therefore, if Alexander the Great is very similar to Julius Caesar, it is very likely that God planned the circumstances of Alexander’s life too to resemble those of Jesus’! ONE EXTRAORDINARY SIMILARITY IS THAT BOTH OF THEIR DEATHS WERE ACCOMPANIED BY A DARKENING OF THE SUN DURING DAYTIME. TRULY WAS JESUS'S AS WELL!

Both Jesus and Alexander were supposed to have died when they were 33 years old! For Jesus is said to be “about thirty years old” when He begins His earthly ministry (Luke 3:23), and the parable of the fig tree teaches that Jesus ministered for about “three years” (Lk. 13:7); for that is how many years the “vinedresser” (ampelourgon) is said to work for in that parable, and Jesus did “work” (ergon) on the people of Israel, who are characterized in the Bible as God’s “vineyard” (ampelona). (e.g. Isaiah 5) Here is another argument that Jesus was 33 when His human nature died:15

We do not know for sure the exact age of Jesus when He was crucified, but He was probably 33 years old. Here is the argument. Jesus was baptized. But the reason He was baptized was to "fulfill all righteousness," (Matt. 3:15). He had to fulfill the legal requirements for entering into the priesthood after the order of Melchizedek (Psalm 110:4; Heb. 5:8-10; 6:20). Priests offered sacrifice to God on behalf of the people. Jesus became a sacrifice for our sin (1 Pet. 2:24; 2 Cor. 5:21) in His role as priest. To be consecrated as a priest, Jesus had to be: 1) washed with water - baptism - (Lev. 8:6; Exodus 29:4, Matt. 3:16). 2) Anointed with oil - the Holy Spirit - (Lev. 8:12; Exodus 29:7; Matt. 3:16). Additionally, He may have needed to be 30 years old, Num. 4:3, "from thirty years and upward, even to fifty years old, all who enter the service to do the work in the tent of meeting." Therefore we can conclude that Jesus began His earthly ministry at the age of 30. Since it went on for 3 1/2 years [suggested by Lk. 4:25, where Jesus compares His ministry to Elijah’s] before Jesus was crucified, it is safe to say that He was 33 at the time of His death.

It is extremely interesting that apparently the only place in the Bible where an age for Jesus is provided (i.e. “about 30 years old") which allows us to calculate that he died at age 33 is given is in Lk. 3:23, while Alexander the Great died in 323 BC!!! (Is this number a symbol of the fact that Jesus is the 2nd of the 3 persons of the Trinity, and that Alexander is symbolic of Him?!) This is not coincidental, because it is based on this year and on that verse that we are able to determine that Jesus & Alexander died at the same age. And, God has specifically chosen other verse numbers to express certain truths. For instance, Gen. 3:15 gives the first prophecy of Jesus’ death in the whole Bible when it says that the Serpent Satan will “bruise the heel” of Jesus, as Achilles died by being “pierced” in the heel; this verse number is clearly symbolic, for there are truly 3 persons including Jesus with 1 Divine Nature, and because Julius Caesar was “pierced” to death on 3/15/44. Another example of a symbolic verse number is Job 33:23, the only place in Job where Jesus is mentioned explicitly as the “redeemer” other than in Job 19:25. Notice how similar 3:23 is to 33:23!!! In that passage of Job, it is said that before Jesus came, God “oftentimes” (33:29) sent dreams to people in which the dreamer, when he is about to die in the dream, discovers:

“If there be a messenger [Jesus is called the “messenger of the covenant” in Malachi 3:1-2] with him [the dreamer], an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show unto man his uprightness [compare with Romans 5, where it is said that man is “justified” or “declared just” by God if he has faith in Jesus]: then he [God] is gracious unto him, and says, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a RANSOM.” [Jesus is said to “redeem” or “pay the ransom.” e.g. Lk. 24:21: “We were hoping that He was going to be the one to redeem Israel!”]

Similarly, God apparently gave Constantine the vision to declare Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire in AD 313 in order to show that there are truly 3 persons including Jesus Christ with 1 Divine Nature; and apparently had Caesar Augustus, who was called the “son of God” since he was the son of Julius Caesar who was called a god, become sole dictator of the Roman Empire in 31 BC for the same reason! Also, God apparently had Julius Caesar die in 44 BC both to hide the fact that he was made as a symbol of Jesus (as I will discuss at length soon) and to show it, since Jesus is commonly believed to have died in 33 AD. (For John the Baptist began his ministry in about 29 AD, the “fifteenth year of the rule of Emperor Tiberius” [Lk. 3:1], and Jesus came to him soon afterwards [Lk. 3:21] and then ministered for about 3 ½ years before dying.)

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ANCIENT ROME & THE ROMAN EMPIRE were made to counterfeit JERUSALEM & CHRIST’S EMPIRE! Here are the three major periods of Ancient Rome, and what I propose these periods symbolize:

-Aeneas brings Trojans to the future site of Rome (1055 BC?, 333 years before Rome's founding [see Aeneid Bk. I])

-Roman Monarchy (753 BC-509 BC) ~ The time of the Old Testament, when God’s people were the Jews who dwelled in Jerusalem & Canaan

-Roman Republic (509 BC-27 BC) ~ about 33 AD-Christ’s Second Coming: when people all over the world gradually submit to the Jewish God who reigns in the New Jerusalem which is currently in Heaven; republics/democracies more common today than they were before Christ

-Roman Empire’s “Pax Romana” (27 BC- AD 180) ~ The Kingdom of Peace which Christ will establish throughout the Earth when He returns and which will be centered at the New Jerusalem

romanempire Roman Empire

-VIRGIL’S AENEID

---AENEAS
Virgil’s Aeneid IS ACTUALLY ABOUT CHRIST (AENEAS) BRINGING A REMNANT OF HIS PEOPLE THE JEWS (THE TROJANS) TO MIX WITH NON-JEWS (ITALIANS) IN THE NEW JERUSALEM (ROME), WHICH IS CURRENTLY IN HEAVEN BUT WILL DESCEND TO EARTH AT THE END OF TIME. (Revelation 21:2) The sack of Troy in Book II is a type of the sack of Jerusalem during the First Crusade. The difficulties the Trojans encountered in making it to Rome (described in Book III) perhaps symbolize the many trials a Christian must face before entering into the New Jerusalem. Aeneas’ battle with and triumph over Turnus and his forces symbolize CHRIST’S ULTIMATE VICTORY OVER SATAN AND SATAN’S FORCES (for a Fury of Hell possesses Turnus so that “lust of steel raged in him, brute insanity of war, and wrath above all (Aeneid 7:445-470), and/or that Christ needs to be “pierced” in order for humans to dwell in Christ’s empire of peace, for Turnus apparently is a type of the Antichrist as well as a type of Satan. Aeneas and his allies don’t kill all the Italians because SOME JEWS WILL INHABIT THE NEW JERUSALEM, AFTER THEY COME TO REALIZE THAT JESUS IS LORD, BUT 2/3 OF THEM WILL PERISH, AS IN THE HOLOCAUST. (Zechariah13:1,8)

In Book I, Aeneas is said to weep for the deaths of his comrades more than any other person did. Truly is it said that “God wills that all men be saved” (although He wills even more to have some men perish so that the saved people can love Him even more), and truly is God’s love for those who fear Him “as high as the heavens are above the Earth” (Psalm 103)!!! Furthermore, it is said of Aeneas that there was “none more just, more zealous, greater in arms and in warfare.” (apx. Aeneid 1:842) His general valor and prominence among the Trojan fighters is attested to at Iliad 2.819, where Aeneas is identified as the ruler of the Dardan host, and again at Iliad 6.75 where Helenus calls Hector and Aeneas the best among the Trojans at war and plotting. [So is Jesus best at war, for He because of His omnipotence defeats all His foes! And so is He the best at plotting, for “in Christ are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” (Colossians 2:3)]

In Book I, Romulus, a type of the Antichrist, is said to come 333 years after Aeneas battles in Rome. Truly was Christ resurrected in his 33rd year!

-Sack of Troy in Book II in 1100s BC ~ Sack of Jerusalem in AD 1096-99
That Troy is symbolic of Jerusalem is indicated by the fact that the types of Christ Hector, Patroclus, Sarpedon, etc. all die in Troy. It is also indicated by the following facts:

http://gbgm-umc.org/UMW/bible/crusades.stm#first
The First Crusade was the most successful from a military point of view. Accounts of this action are shocking. For example, historian Raymond of Agiles described the capture of Jerusalem by the Crusaders in 1099:
Some of our men cut off the heads of their enemies; others shot them with arrows, so that they fell from the towers; others tortured them longer by casting them into the flames. Piles of heads, hands and feet were to be seen in the streets of the city. It was necessary to pick one's way over the bodies of men and horses. But these were small matters compared to what happened at the temple of Solomon, a place where religious services ware ordinarily chanted. What happened there? If I tell the truth, it will exceed your powers of belief. So let it suffice to say this much at least, that in the temple and portico of Solomon, men rode in blood up to their knees and bridle reins.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/cru2.htm
There were those who thought that they might get rich by taking the wealth that they thought existed in Jerusalem.

The First Crusade had a very difficult journey getting to the Middle East.

The Muslims claimed afterwards that 70,000 people were killed and that the Crusaders took whatever treasure they could from the Dome of the Rock.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Crusade
The First Crusade was launched in 1096 by Pope Urban II with the dual goals of conquering the sacred city of Jerusalem and the Holy Land and freeing the Eastern Christians from Islamic rule.
30,000 men and 5,000 cavalry went on the Crusade.

In the end most who took up the call were not knights, but peasants who were not wealthy and had little in the way of fighting skills
Over the course of that afternoon, evening and next morning, the crusaders murdered almost every inhabitant of Jerusalem. Muslims, Jews, and even eastern Christians were all massacred.

According to the anonymous Gesta Francorum, in what some believe to be an exaggerated account of the massacre which subsequently took place there, "...the slaughter was so great that our men waded in blood up to their ankles...”

And it came to pass, that Peter, passing through all quarters, went down also to the saints that inhabited Lydda. And he found there a certain man, Aeneas by name, for eight years lying on a couch, who was paralyzed. And Peter said to him, AENEAS, JESUS CHRIST heals you; rise up, and spread a couch for yourself.’ And immediately he rose up. And all those inhabiting Lydda and the Saron saw him, and they turned to the Lord. (Acts 9:32-35)

Christ died for our sins, as written in the Scriptures; He was buried and He was RAISED the third day, according to the Scriptures; and He appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve. And He appeared to above five hundred brothers at once, of whom the greater part remain until now. (1 Corinthians 15:3-5)

Not only does this passage juxtapose the names Aeneas and Jesus Christ, but it even says that Aeneas rose from the dead, and was seen by all the people in the area where he lived, just as Jesus was!

The descent of Aeneas into Hades in Aeneid Book VI is symbolic of the fact that JESUS DESCENDED INTO HADES AND THEN RETURNED FROM IT ALIVE, TO ESTABLISH HIS KINGDOM OF PEACE CENTERED IN THE NEW JERUSALEM. This resemblance is no mere coincidence: other types of Christ such as Hercules and Odysseus descend into Hades and return from it alive as well!!! Extremely few people have done this! Look at this line: "The way downward is easy from Avernus..But to retrace your steps to heaven's air, there is the trouble, there is the toil. A few whom a benign Jupiter has loved or whom fiery heroism has borne to heaven, SONS OF GODS, COULD DO IT"!!!!!!!!!!!! (~6.130-35)

“But since He ascended, what is it but that also he first descended into the lower parts of the Earth? He that ascended is the same who also ascended above the heavens, that He might fulfill all things.” (Ephesians 4:9-10)

The account of the Elysian Fields of Hades is a true depiction of “the bosom of Abraham” of Luke 16 which is separated from the place of torment by a large divider! The heroes here are feasting! They are praising Apollo, the god of the Sun! All the humans here did good works out of love for their neighbors! As God the Father loves God the Son, Anchises loves Aeneas! The souls all have a “second body” in store for them at the end of the 1,000 years, as the Resurrection of dead bodies follows Christ’s 1,000 year kingdom (Revelation 20), referred to also in the last line of Plato’s Republic where Socrates tells Glaucon that if we pursue righteousness then “here and in the journey of a 1,000 years we shall fare well”! The passage correctly says that God’s Spirit and Mind are “infused through all the members of the world”! Rome is linked with Olympus because the New Jerusalem will be ruled by God! Caesar Augustus, Alcides (Hercules), and Bacchus are juxtaposed because they are all types of Christ! Numa is “the king who builds early Rome on a base of laws,” and he has a snowy mane and beard! Michelangelo’s sculpture of Moses portrays Moses with a long beard! “Roman, remember by your strength to rule Earth’s peoples- for your arts are to be these: to pacify [make PEACE], to impose the rule of LAW, to spare the conquered [i.e. to have MERCY], BATTLE DOWN THE PROUD.”

In Book VIII, Aeneas is compared to Hercules, another type of the Antichrist, as I argue above! In ~6.122, he says: "why name the heroes, Theseus & Hercules? By birth I too descend from Jove on high." Like Aeneas, Hercules descended into Hades & returned alive. As Hercules is celebrated by these men year after year for causing men to be “saved from barbaric dangers,” so is Jesus ever-celebrated for saving His people from Satan and from their sins! Cacus sounds like the Greek word Kakos, which means “Evil”! Satan is the Evil One! Cacus has a “bestial form” just like Satan! Hercules and Jesus both have “well-fed cattle,” for Jesus takes care of His people! As Hercules in his rage went over all Mount Aventine (one of the seven hills of Rome) three times, Jesus will live in and perhaps go over all the New Jerusalem which Rome foreshadows, and He is strongly associated with the number three!

And Jesus says, “The Son of Man [Jesus] came to seek and SAVE THE LOST.” (Luke 19:10)

This whole scene is a symbol of how angry Jesus is at Satan for capturing the LOST people! OH, HIS LOVE IS AMAZING!!!! As Hercules destroys Cacus, Jesus will destroy Satan!

http://vergil.classics.upenn.edu/comm2/legend/legend.html
For the birth of Aeneas See The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (1.5.19 6-201) and Hesiod's
Theogony (1008-1009). In the Hymn to Aphrodite, the Goddess proclaims that Aeneas, the
son she has conceived by the mortal Anchises, will come to rule the Trojans, as will the
generations upon generations that succeed him. In the Theogony the
birth of Aeneas is said to be a result of the sexual union of Anchises and Aphrodite "on the
peaks of windy Ida." This passage is followed directly by mention of the birth of three sons
of Circe by Odysseus, one of whom named Latinus, who will rule over the "famous
Tyrsenians." In this account, then, it is Odysseus, not Aeneas, with whom an early Greek
presence in Italy is associated. The overlapping of the roles of Aeneas and Odysseus in the
Italian foundation stories is a regular feature in the legends, and one that Vergil makes rich
use of. [God made these resemblances to show that both Aeneas and Odysseus are types of Christ!]

In the Iliad (20.209ff.) Aeneas traces his lineage to Zeus through Dardanus, the legendary
founder of Troy. [So is Jesus begotten by the most high God the Father, for Zeus is the highest of all the gods!]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeneas
After his death, his mother, Venus asked Jupiter to make her son immortal. Jupiter agreed and the river god Numicus cleansed Aeneas of all his mortal parts and Venus anointed him with Ambrosia and Nectar, making him a god. Aeneas was recognized as the god Jupiter Indiges. Inspired by the work of James Frazer, some have posited that Aeneas was originally a life-death-rebirth deity. [So did Jesus rise from the dead after He was anointed, and so did He become declared a God soon afterwards, for He is God!]

---TURNUS
In addition to being a type of Satan, he also appears to be a type of the Antichrist, especially given all the similarities between him and Hector of the Iliad, another type of the Antichrist. For instance, Turnus is said to be the Rutulians’ “last chance” for avoiding destruction (Aeneid ~12.650), as Hector was the last hope of the Trojans, and as “there is no other name under Heaven by which men must be saved” [other than Christ] (Acts 4:12). No one can escape him, as no one can escape from Hector (except types of Christ such as Achilles) or Jesus. Fire shines from his eyes as they did from Hector’s at the end of Iliad 12 and from Jesus’ in Revelation 1:14. He is the son of Daunus who has fifty daughters, as Hector is the son of Priam who has fifty sons, and as Christ is the son of God the Father who has many “adopted sons” (John 1), i.e., Christians. He is “by a head the tallest” of all the captains fighting the Trojans (Aeneid ~7:780), as many of the types of Christ such as Achilles and the Colossus of Rhodes are depicted as giants.

---OTHER SYMBOLS OF JESUS:

-The Sibyl of Book 6 who leads Aeneas through Hades, who is the priestess of Apollo the SUN god, daughter of Glaucus the sea GOD, who looks "no longer like a mortal", and who is called the "ancient priestess." Truly is Jesus the son of God the ancient priest of God the Father (Psalm 110) who existed "in the beginning." (John 1:1).

-Nisus of Book 9 who lays down his life for his friend Euryalus in perhaps the most emotional scene of the Aeneid, out of love for him. To emphasize this similarity, in Paradise Lost Book 3:236-238, God even has John Milton make Jesus speak similar language to the kind Nisus uses, when he offers to sacrifice his life, with his repetition of the word "me" when He says to God the Father: "Behold me then, me for him, life for life I offer, on me let thine anger fall; account me man; I for his sake will leave thy bosom." Truly did Jesus say: "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." (John 15:13)

-Lausus toward the end of Book 10 goes in front of his sinful father Mezentius to protect him, and as a result is "pierced" to death by Aeneas (~10.820). Mezentius then says: "Am I, your father, saved by your wounds, by your death do I live?...My son, I stained your name with wickedness..Long since I owed my land, my hating folk, punishment for my sins. I should have given my guilty life up, suffering every death." (~10.840-850)

1) Romulus, the 1st king of Rome=Abraham, Abel, God

According to legend, Rome founded about 753 B.C. by a descendant of the Trojan prince Aeneas, who escaped to Italy after the city of Troy was destroyed by the Greeks during the Trojan War. The legendary founder was Romulus. He and his twin brother, Remus, had been abandoned as infants and rescued by a female wolf, who nursed them. Grown to manhood, they decided to build a city near the spot where the wolf had saved them. Disagreeing over the location, each built at a separate site. Later they quarreled and Remus was killed. Romulus became the first king of the city named after him. God apparently made Remus & Romulus as symbols of Cain & Abel and Lot & Abram (whose name later becomes “Abraham”). Both appear pairs of brothers appear at the beginning of Christian History, as Romulus and Remus appear at the beginning of Roman History. As the first Roman of Rome is Romulus, so is the first Christian of Jerusalem Abraham, who is directed by God to enter Canaan in Genesis 12. It is quite credible that I am correct, because I have showed how tons of people throughout history, such as the Egyptian pharaohs have been made to resemble Old Testament characters in VERY UNCOMMON & VERY NUMEROUS ways (see Table of Contents). Now carefully consider the following passages in order to see the similarities:

“And Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.” (Gen. 4:8)

“And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south…And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together. And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdmen of Lot’s cattle…And Abram said unto Lot, ‘Let there be no strife, I pray you, between me and you, and between my herdmen and your herdmen, for we are brothers. Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself, I pray you, from me: if you will take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if you depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left…Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other. Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom...And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, after that Lot was separated from him, ‘Lift up now your eyes, and look from the place where you are northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: For all the land which you see, to you will I give it, and to your seed for ever. And I will make your seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall your seed also be numbered.” (Gen. 13:1-16)

God apparently had them be said to be nursed by a wolf because dogs are of the family of wolves; therefore, the “myth” really seems to mean that Abraham & Lot and Cain & Abel were nursed by God! As I show in this book when I discuss how Christ is present everywhere in the Bible, Abraham is a symbol of God the Father and Abel is a symbol of God the Son. Thus, as Christ is the founder of His Kingdom which has been steadily growing in membership and will come to more visibly dominate the entire world, so is Romulus the founder of the Roman Empire which gradually came to dominate most of the world. However, God CONCEALED the connection between the story of Cain & Abel and Remus & Romulus by having Romulus who symbolizes Abel kill Remus who symbolizes Cain. But in fact, this means that Christ has power over Satan, who is a symbol of Cain!

Furthermore, Romulus shares other VERY UNCOMMON similarities with God the Son such as being said to be born of a virgin and to be God & the son of God: "Adding crime to crime, he murdered his brother's sons and made the daughter, Rea Silvia, a Vestal virgin; thus, under the presence of honoring her, depriving her of all hopes of issue. But the Fates had, I believe, already decreed the origin of this great city and the foundation of the mightiest empire under heaven. The Vestal was forcibly violated and gave birth to twins. She named Mars as their father, either because she really believed it, or because the fault might appear less heinous if a deity were the cause of it...Then, when a few men gave the lead, they all decided that Romulus should be hailed a god, son of a god, king, and father of the Roman state. And in prayers they begged his grace, beseeching him to be favorable and propitious towards them and ever to protect his descendants. " [Livy, History 1.3-4, 16]

2) Numa, the 2nd king of Rome=Moses

From Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy:

“Although Rome had Romulus as its first orderer and has to acknowledge, as daughter, its birth and education as from him, nonetheless, since the heavens judged that the orders of Romulus would not suffice for such an empire, they inspired in the breast of the Roman Senate the choosing of Numa Pompilius as successor to Romulus so that those things omitted by him might be ordered by Numa. As he found a very ferocious people and wished to reduce it to civil obedience with the arts of peace, he turned to religion as a thing altogether necessary if he wished to maintain a civilization; and he constituted it so that for many centuries there was never so much fear of God as in that republic, which made easier whatever enterprise the Senate or the great men of Rome might plan to make.

Whoever considers well the Roman histories sees how much religion serves to command armies, to animate the plebs, to keep men good, to bring shame to the wicked. One sees that for Romulus to order the Senate and to make other civil and military orders, the authority of God was not necessary; but it was quite necessary to Numa, who pretended to be intimate with a nymph who counseled him on what he had to counsel the people. It all arose because he wished to put new and unaccustomed orders in the city and doubted that his authority would suffice.

And truly there was never any orderer of extraordinary laws for a people who did not have recourse to God, because otherwise they would not have been accepted…So did Lycurgus; so did Solon; so did many others who had the same end as they. Without doubt, whoever wished to make a republic in the present times would find it easier among mountain men, where there is no civilization, than among those who are used to living in cities, where civilization is corrupt.

Numa is apparently a symbol of Moses, who in turn is a symbol of Christ! As does Numa, Moses claims to have been counseled by God on what to counsel the people, when He gives them God’s Law in the Old Testament books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy! And like Numa, Moses gave this Law to “mountain men,” on Mount Sinai! Like Numa, Moses reduced that “very ferocious people” to civil obedience with the arts of peace! And like Moses, Jesus reduced we who are now Christians but who had been “very ferocious people” to civil obedience with the arts of peace! That is why when Jesus reappears after His resurrection, He says to His disciples: “Peace to you.” (John20:19)

3) After Numa, there were five more kings. Therefore, Ancient Rome had SEVEN kings total! And SEVEN symbolizes completion! For instance, the universe was created in SEVEN “DAYS.” Also, in Revelation, the world is said to be destroyed by the opening of SEVEN seals, by SEVEN angels, and by SEVEN plagues! THUS, THE SEVENTH KING OF ANCIENT ROME SIGNIFIES THE COMPLETION OF AN ERA- THE ERA IN WHICH THE JEWS ALONE WERE THOUGHT TO BE GOD’S CHOSEN PEOPLE! How brilliantly God concealed this fact! I did not even realize it until just now, after much pondering over this fact.

4) “The Roman Republic was established around 509 BC, according to later writers such as Livy, when the last of the seven kings of Rome, Tarquin the Proud, was deposed,

The most important magistrates were the TWO consuls, who together exercised executive authority in the form of imperium, or military command…There was no distinction between religion and the state. One of the main purposes, in fact, was to interpret the will of the gods for the community. Rituals were performed in public temples to appease the gods and keep them on the side of Rome. The Romans later adopted many of the gods of the Greeks [including the TWELVE gods of the Greeks] and gave them Latin names. For example, Zeus, the king of the gods to the Greeks, because Jupiter to the Romans.” THE ROMANS WERE GOVERNED BY CONSUL GOD THE FATHER AND CONSUL GOD THE SON, WHO ASSOCIATED WITH ELEVEN DISCIPLES WHEN HE WALKED ON EARTH A FEW HUNDRED YEARS LATER! THE FOUNDING OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC SIGNIFIES THE BEGINNING OF THE CHRISTIAN ERA, CORRESPONDING TO THE TIME WHEN CHRIST WALKED ON EARTH HUNDREDS OF YEARS LATER!!!!!!!!!!! THEY HAVE THE SAME GODS AS THE GREEKS, ONLY WITH DIFFERENT NAMES, BECAUSE ANCIENT ROME=ANCIENT ATHENS=NEW JERUSALEM, ONLY WITH DIFFERENT NAMES!!!!!!!

5) 509-264 B.C.: “The Romans gradually subdued the other peoples on the Italian peninsula, including the Etruscans.” 264 B.C.-133 B.C.: “With virtually all of Italy south of the Po Valley united under them…the Romans found new worlds to conquer. During this time, most of the independent lands around the Mediterranean Sea, except Egypt, came under the rule of Rome.” SO DO CHRIST’S PEOPLE, THE “SOLDIERS OF CHRIST,” WIN MANY CONVERTS TO CHRISTIANITY THROUGHOUT THE ROMAN EMPIRE!

-SCIPIO AFRICANUS

Truly was Jesus born of a virgin: "It is recorded that the mother of Scipio Africanus, the elder, had the same experience as Olympias, Philip the Great's wife and Alexander the Great's mother,... his mother had long been believed sterile and that Publius Scipio, her husband, had despaired of having children. Then, while her husband was away and she was sleeping on her own, a huge snake was seen beside her, in her room and in her bed; when those who saw this snake shouted out in terror, it vanished and could not be found. Scipio consulted the harupices about this and they held a sacrifice and gave a response that children would be born. Not long after the sighting of the snake, the woman began to show all signs of being pregnant; in the tenth month, she gave birth to this Publius Africanus, the man who defeated Hannibal and the Carthaginians in the Second Punic War. But it is much more because of his achievements than because of that prodigy that he also <i.e., as well as Alexander> is thought to be a man of godlike quality."
[Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights VI. 1.1-6, 2d century AD]

from Wikipedia:

-Scipio is considered by many to be one of Rome's greatest generals; he never lost a battle. [The same is true of Jesus God the Son, whose will always succeeds, and King David, Alexander the Great & Cyrus the Great who like Scipio the Great are types of Christ]

-Scipio was the first Roman general to expand Roman territories outside Italy and islands around the Italian mainland. He conquered the Carthaginian territory of Iberia for Rome, although the two Iberian provinces were not fully pacified for a couple of centuries. His defeat of Hannibal at Zama paved the way for Carthage's eventual destruction in 146 BC. [Truly is it said of Jesus: "it is necessary for him to reign until He shall have put all enemies under His feet...all things He [God the Father] put in subjection under His [Jesus'] feet." [1 Corinthians 15:25-27] ]

http://www.fenrir.dk/history/index.php?title=Publius_Cornelius_Scipio_Africanus

-From the sun rising above the marshes of Maeotia
There is no one who may equal me in deeds.
If is it right for anyone to rise into the regions of the gods,
For me alone the greatest gate of heaven stands open.
-Quintius Ennius, Epitaph of Scipio Africanus

http://www.amazon.com/Scipio-Africanus-Greater-Than-Napoleon/dp/0306813637/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224389315&sr=1-2

-The author of this highly-acclaimed book argues that Scipio was the greatest general of all time. "he convincingly shows that no other general in history achieved Scipio's understanding of the breadth of war, and its ultimate goal of creating a lasting peace. For this reason, Hart concludes that Scipio is the greatest captain of all time."

http://vridar.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/resurrection-response-to-wrights-arguments-5/:

-"Some departed dead reappeared in recognizable form with their first words being, “Peace, Take courage, Don’t be afraid.” (Scipio Africanus, Jesus)
The dead would reappear to pass on instructions to the living. (Romulus, Scipio, Patroclus, Samuel, Jesus)"

6) The two Triumvirates of the 1st Century B.C., including Julius Caesar

JULIUS CAESAR********************************************************************DON'T MISS THIS!

caesar Assassination of Julius Caesar

The information following this paragraph is quoted from"Everything of Jesus' Story can be found in Caesar's Biography", and is drawn from Francesco Carotta’s book, Jesus was Caesar, which has 51216 PAGES OF 15 YEARS OF RESEARCH ABOUT SIMILARITIES BETWEEN JESUS CHRIST AND JULIUS CAESAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There were many books written around the time of Julius Caesar about Julius Caesar from which Carotta drew his research, such as the life of Julius Caesar in Plutarch’s Lives. I intersperse the similarities drawn from Carotta’s book with similarities drawn from the following website: http://www. users.bigpond.com/pontificate/ 4.htm#1, which particularly discusses the similarites of Caesar’s and Christ’s final week. For most of the similarities from the latter website, I have mentioned the classical texts which the author of this website cites. Carotta and the authors of the articles on both websites conclude that the Gospel accounts were based on the events of Julius Caesar’s life, although they should have concluded instead that God directed the events of Julius Caesar’s life so as to corroborate every detail of the Gospel accounts, as He did with the events of Socrates’s life and the lives of tens of people in the Old Testament!!!! I quote only some of the most remarkable similarities, which truly show that Jesus Christ resembles Julius Caesar far more than any other person who ever lived.

“Carotta: 'Everything of the Story of Jesus can be Found in the Biography of Caesar.'
The Italian-German linguist and philosopher Francesco Carotta proves in
his book Jesus was Caesar that the story of Jesus Christ has its origin in
Roman sources. In more than fifteen years of investigation Carotta has found
the traces which lead to the Julian origin of Christianity. He concludes thatthe story of Jesus is based on the narrative of the life of Julius Caesar...
Carotta's new evidence leads to such an overwhelming amount ofsimilarities between the biography of Caesar and the story of Jesus that coincidence can be ruled out.

- Both Caesar and Jesus start their rising careers in neighboring states
in the north: Gallia [Latin for “Gaul”] and Galilee.
- Both have to cross a fateful river: the Rubicon and the Jordan. Once
across the rivers, they both come across a patron/rival: Pompeius and Johnthe Baptist, and their first followers: Antonius and Curio on the one hand and Peter and Andrew on the other.
- Both are continually on the move, finally arriving at the capital, Rome
and Jerusalem, where they at first triumph, yet subsequently undergo their
passion.
- Both have good relationships with women and have a special relationship
with one particular woman, Caesar with Cleopatra and Jesus with Magdalene.

- Both have encounters at night, Caesar with Nicomedes of Bithynia, Jesus
with Nicodemus of Bethany. [The encounter with Nicodemus in John 3 is no fiction!!!]
- Both have an affinity to ordinary people-and both run afoul of the
highest authorities: Caesar with the Senate, Jesus with the Sanhedrin.

-During and after the civil war against Pompey, Caesar became famous for his policy of pardoning almost all his enemies, excepting some that he had pardoned previously. Suetonius e.g. praises Caesar's "wonderful restraint and clemency" (Life of Julius Caesar, 75); Velleius Paterculus describes his pardoning of his enemies as defying human credence (Historia Romana , II, 56) [Truly did Jesus say “love your enemies,” a statement he is especially famous for! (Matt. 5:44) Nietzsche says about this moral in Beyond Good and Evil that it is “inhuman to bless when cursed,” just as people like Paterculus couldn’t believe Caesar pardoned his enemies! Remember that what is impossible for man in his natural condition is possible with the help of the Holy Spirit, which fills Christians with Christ’s love!]
-Not long before his murder, and in accordance with what Dio describes as a "remarkable" privilege recently granted him (Dio XLIV, 4,3-4; 10,1), Caesar rode into Rome on horseback when returning from the Latin Festival which was held at the Alban Mount. As he entered the Capitol, some members of the crowd hailed him as King. [When Jesus rode into Jerusalem on an ass, “all the multitude of the disciples” said “with a loud voice” “Blessed be the KING coming in the name of the Lord.” (Luke 19:28-38) The Gospel writers did not lie when they quoted this fact as a fulfillment of the prophecy given hundreds of years before Jesus came about the Messiah in Zechariah 9:9: “Raise a shout, Fair Jerusalem! Lo, your king is coming to you. He is victorious, triumphant, yet humble, riding on an ass, on a donkey foaled by a she-ass”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]

-It is widely reported that Caesar attended a supper with friends on the eve of his murder, at which the wine beaker was passed around and the subject of conversation turned to death (see e.g. App II:115). [Truly did Jesus have the Last Supper, at which wine was passed and Jesus’s imminent death was discussed, on the eve before his death!!!!!! (Matt. 26)]

-Antony was Caesar's religious deputy, as the Senate had only recently appointed him as personal priest to Caesar...This is pithily confirmed by Cicero - "As Jupiter, As Mars, as Quirinus have their priests, so is Mark Antony priest of the god Julius." (II Phil.,110)...But, rightly or wrongly, Antony deserted Caesar in his moment of need. He had been detained outside Pompey's theatre by the conspirator Trebonius, and Plutarch reports that he fled immediately upon hearing the uproar in the Theatre when the attack on Caesar began. He disguised himself as a slave, and hid well into the night, making contact with the assassins early in the morning before dawn (Life of Antony , Plut 14; Dio XLIV, 22; App II, 126). [Truly did Peter, Jesus’s closest disciple other than John, abandon him and hide “well into the night”! (Matt. 26:69-74)]

-Immediately prior to his assassination, Caesar was mocked in his royal purple robe whilst wearing his crown of laurel...The conspirator Metellus Cimber reportedly had pulled Caesar's regal purple robe down from his shoulder as the signal for the others to attack him. To Caesar's supporters, this would have appeared as a great indignity. In other words, the conspirators were paying mock homage to Caesar, just as the soldiers do with Jesus (e.g. Mark 15:17-18). [Truly was Jesus dressed in a royal robe, crowned, and mocked right before His crucifixion]

-Both have a traitor: Brutus and Judas. And an assassin who at first gets away: the other Brutus and Barabbas. And one who washes his hands of it: Lepidus and Pilate.
- Both get killed: Caesar is stabbed with daggers, Jesus is crucified, but with a stab wound in his side. [John 19: Truly was Jesus’ side pierced by a spear]

-The deaths of both Caesar and Christ disturb the natural order, dimming the sun. The gospels have the sun being darkened for three hours (e.g. Mk 15:33)...The supernatural dimness of the sun after Caesar's murder is one of the most widely attested phenomena of that period of antiquity:

Pliny the Elder – “ Portentous and protracted eclipses of the sun occur, such as the one after the murder of Caesar the dictator and during the Antonine war which caused almost a whole years continuous gloom” (Bk II, 30)

Plutarch – “The brightness of the Sun was darkened, which all through the year rose very pale and shined not out, whereby it gave but little heat. Wherefore the air was rather cloudy and dark by reason of the heat that could not come forth, causing the earth to bring forth but raw and unripe fruit, which rotted before it could ripen.” (Life of Julius Caesar, 69)

Manilius – “Even the god Caesar fell victim to deceit unspeakable, whereat in horror of the world Phoebus [Apollo, the SUN GOD] brought darkness and forsook the earth.” (Bk II, 595)

Virgil – “The sun, too, pitied Rome when Caesar died, and hid its shining face in dim dusty red, and that impious generation feared eternal night." (Georgic 1, v 466)

-Both hang on a cross. [Caesar’s “crucifixion” is described in Suetonius (Jul. 84.1), Appianus (BC 2.146-147), apparently after he is murdered]

-Both die on the same respective dates of the year: Caesar on the Ides
(15 th) of March, Jesus on the 15 th of Nisan. [Truly did Jesus die on this day, the Day of Passover, to signify that the Passover Lamb of Exodus 12 was indeed a type of the Antichrist.]
-Both are deified [i.e. considered to be gods!] posthumously: as Divus Iulius and as Jesus Christ. He was the first man in Rome to become a God. TRULY WAS JESUS GOD INCARNATE!!!!!!!!!

Julius Caesar and Jesus Christ even have the same initials!!!! Remember that even the names of the types of Christ signify that those people typify Christ. For instance, almost half of the twenty-one people I mention in Part Two who typify Christ have their names begin with “J,” four of them have the same name as Jesus in Hebrew (“Joshua”), Saul of Israel has the same name as Saul/Paul whom he symbolizes, and Jonathan the best friend of David has a very similar name to John the best friend of Jesus. Similarly, I propose that God had the name “Socrates” given to Socrates to suggest his similarity to Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived besides Jesus, according to God in 1 Kings 3!

Shortly before his death, Caesar was given the title dictator perpetuo,17 which is Latin for “perpetual dictator” or “dictator for eternity,” of Rome, the capital of the Roman Empire. [Hitler, another type of the Anti-Christ, is perhaps the most famous "dictator."] Truly was it said about Jesus that “He will reign on the throne of David and over His kingdom, to establish and sustain it with righteousness, from now on and FOREVER” (Isaiah 9:6-7) in the New Jerusalem, which will become the new capital of the world! (Revelation 21)

Also, as Julius Caesar was part of the “First Triumvirate” along with Crassus and Pompey the Great which had “overwhelming power in the Roman state,”18 so is Jesus Christ part of the Trinity along with God the Father and God the Holy Spirit which has and will have overwhelming power in the New Jerusalem!

7) Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianius (Octavian): the first Roman Emperor

“The Senate honored Octavian with the name Augustus (meaning grand or majestic). He became the first emperor of Rome, although his many powers and offices were traditional republican ones. During his long reign (27 B.C.-A.D. 14), the army was reorganized, a permanent navy created, the empire expanded, and a 200-year era of peace, the Pax Romana (Roman Peace), begun. Most of Rome was rebuilt and a professional civil service was formed to supervise the collection of taxes, public works, food and water supply, and the minting of coins. Literature flourished, including the works of such poets as Virgil and Horace.”

Augustus was said to have been born of a virgin impregnated by a snake, as was claimed of Alexander the Great & Scipio Africanus who defeated the great Hannibal, other types of Christ! And Christ is represent by the "serpent in the wilderness" raised up on a standard which heals people if they look to it! (see Part Two) "When Atia had come in the middle of the night to the solemn service of Apollo, she had her litter set down in the temple and fell asleep, while the rest of the matrons also slept. On a sudden a serpent glided up to her and shortly went away. When she awoke, she purified herself, as if after the embraces of her husband, and at once there appeared on her body a mark in colors like a serpent, and she could never get rid of it; so that presently she ceased ever to go to the public baths. In the tenth month after that Augustus was born and was therefore regarded as the son of Apollo."
[Suetonius, Life of the Deified Augustus, Chapter 94] Truly was Jesus born of a virgin, and thus was the son of man & son of God!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus

The biographer Suetonius describes Augustus' outward appearance as follows: "He was unusually handsome ... He had clear, bright eyes ... His teeth were wide apart, small, and ill-kept; his hair was slightly curly and inclining to golden. [Truly was it said of the Messiah King Jesus that He is “fairer than the sons of men.” (Psalm 45:1-2)]

On March 6, 12 BC, after the death of Lepidus, he additionally took up the position of pontifex maximus, the high priest of the collegium of the Pontifices, the most important position in Roman religion.[140][141] On February 5, 2 BC, Augustus was also given the title pater patriae, or "father of the country". [Truly is Jesus the High Priest who paid for our sins by His sacrifice of Himself and who intercedes for us (Cf. Paul’s Letter to the Hebrews) and the “Everlasting Father” of all human beings! (Isaiah 9:6)]

Both Augustus and Jesus rule a wide-spread empire which brings peace to the people included in it. Augustus ruled in Rome for FORTY years in all likelihood to show that Jesus the true “son of God” walked the Earth for FORTY days after He was resurrected and at that time ruled his followers in Jerusalem! (Acts 1) Augustus was called the “son of God” because Julius Caesar was considered a god and he was Julius’s adopted son. Furthermore, Augustus and Jesus were both considered and worshipped as gods themselves! As Julius bequeathed all his possessions to his “son” Augustus, so does God the Father bequeath all to Jesus God the Son! And Augustus lived while Jesus lived! Augustus was part of a Triumvirate that ruled Rome just as Julius Caesar was and just as Jesus Christ is part of the Trinity that rules the New Jerusalem! The Second TRIUMVIRATE was made up of Mark Antony, Marcus Lepidus, and Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (Octavian), Caesar’s nephew and adopted son. In 31 B.C., Octavian won in his struggle for power against Antony and the Egyptian queen Cleopatra, as Jesus whom he symbolizes is 1 of 3 Divine Persons! GOD HAS HIS NAME CONTAIN JULIUS CAESAR’S NAME TO SHOW THAT JESUS WAS RESURRECTED AND WILL RULE AN EMPIRE LIKE OCTAVIAN’S!!! The history of the human race is divided into the time B.C. and the time A.D. in order to tell us that the Roman Empire under Octavian is symbolic of the time when the old Earth will be replaced by a new Earth, on which Jesus will reign! A.D. is an abbreviation for Anno Domini: “the year of the Lord”! The end of the old Earth and beginning of the New Earth is frequently referred to as the “Day of the Lord,” and the “day” is not a literal day but rather simply a period of time!

“And I saw a new heaven and a new Earth; for the first heaven and the first Earth passed away, and the sea is no longer. And I John saw the Holy City, the New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of Heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out the Heaven, saying, ‘Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He shall tabernacle with them, and they shall be His peoples, and God Himself shall be with them their God. And God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death shall be no longer, nor mourning, nor crying, nor distress any longer, because the former things are passed away. And He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” (Revelation21:1-5)

“For the majority of people, life was peaceful and prosperous in the empire of the first two centuries A.D. The good emperors and wealthy individuals supported benefits and education for the poor, and women gradually gained more legal rights.” In the New Jerusalem, everyone will be educated about God!

“From a small settlement in central Italy, ancient Rome grew into a great city and the heart of one of the largest and most long-lasting empires in history. At its height, the Roman Empire stretched from western Asia to Britain and Spain, and from the Danube River in central Europe to the edge of the Sahara desert in North Africa. The empire in the West lasted for some 500 years.” So will the New Jerusalem be the headquarters of a wide-ranging empire, as was also true of Athens!

“They [the Romans] brought peace, an advanced culture, and the rule of law to the conquered lands. The many different peoples in the far-flung empire were united by common citizenship. They enjoyed free trade and travel over good roads and safe waterways, a high level of public services (including libraries and museums), and a uniform law code, government, and system of money.” Compare with the following:

“After these things I saw, and behold, a great crowd, which no one was able to number, out of every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; and crying with a loud voice, saying, ‘Salvation to Him who sits on the throne of our God, and to the Lamb [Jesus]!’…These are they who come out of the Great Tribulation, and they washed their robes, and their robes white by the blood of the Lamb. Because of this are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in His temple; and He who sits on the throne shall tabernacle over them.” (Revelation7:9-10,14-15)

“But we know that everything works for the good of those who love God, who are called according to His purposes. Because whom He foreknew, He PREDESTINED TO BE CONFORMED TO THE IMAGE OF HIS SON, so that the Son would be the firstborn among many brothers. But whom he predestined, these also He called; and whom He called, these also He justified; and whom He justified, these also He glorified.” (Romans8:28-30)

As the Roman Empire was composed of many different peoples united by a common citizenship, so is Jesus’ Empire composed of many different peoples united by the fact that they were washed by Jesus’ blood because of their faith in Him! As the Roman Empire had a uniform law code and government, so does Jesus’ Empire, for all the people of it follow His Law! For, all these people whom God glorifies in Paradise are PREDESTINED TO BE CONFORMED TO THE IMAGE OF HIS SON, who perfectly follows His Father’s Law! (Rom. 5:18-19)

-ROMAN EMPERORS #3-5: TIBERIUS, CALIGULA, CLAUDIUS

Caligula, too, recalls the Abomination of Desolation, when, at the apocalypse, the Antichrist will be enthroned in the Temple. When, in 40 AD, it was reported that Jews had demolished a statue of Caligula erected in his honor, he ordered that his image, "a colossal statue gilt all over" (Philo, 203)), be placed in the Temple, itself,

Claudius was deified by Nero and the Senate almost immediately. Suet. Nero 9
ancient historians described Claudius as bloodthirsty and cruel, overly fond of both gladiatorial combat and executions, and very quick to angerSuet. Claud. 34, 38. Tacitus Ann. XII 20.

martyrs Christians martyred by Nero= FORESHADOWING OF GREAT TRIBULATION: "They were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill with...the wild animals of earth." (Revelation 6:8)

-NERO CAESAR, ROMAN EMPEROR #6

-related to the other Caesars, all of whom are types of the Anti-Christ
-like the other Caesars & the Anti-Christ, has power over people in many places throughout the Earth
-said to be resurrected: After Nero's suicide in AD 68, there was a widespread belief, especially in the eastern provinces, that he was not dead and somehow would return (Suetonius, LVII; Tacitus, Histories II.8; Dio, LXVI.19.3). Suetonius (XL) relates how court astrologers had predicted Nero's fall but that he would have power in the east. And, indeed, at least three false claimants did present themselves as Nero redivivus (resurrected).
-If the Greek spelling of Nero Caesar (Neron Caesar) is transliterated into Hebrew, the numerical equivalent is 666, the number of the Anti-Christ. (Revelation 13:18)
-As Hitler a type of the Anti-Christ persecuted God's former people the Jews especially for 3.5 years from December 1941-June 1945 (as is predicted in Revelation 12 will happen to Jews on the Earth during the Great Tribulation), and Roman Emperor Titus a type of the Anti-Christ for 3.5 years during the siege of Jerusalem from AD 67-70 culminating in the destruction of the Temple, so did Nero persecute Christians especially during the 3.5 years from mid-November 64-June 68. (as is predicted in Daniel 7-12 will happen to God's people during the Great Tribulation) (http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~knorr/public/comparison_of_eschat_models.pdf)
-Nero is the sixth of the first seven emperors of Rome, the city on "seven hills" which is the whore of Babylon described in Revelation 17-18 and is talked about as having seven different kings. The last king of this city (the Anti-Christ) is said in Ch. 17 to be one of the first six kings brought back to life http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread100465/pg1
-"It is interesting, from a historical perspective, that Nero was actually referred to as a “beast” [as is the Anti-Christ in Revelation 13] by his contemporaries. For instance, the pagan writer Apollinius of Tyana, who lived at the time of Nero, states: “In my travels, which have been wider than ever man yet accomplished, I have seen many wild beasts of Arabia and India; but this beast, that is commonly called a Tyrant, I know not how many heads it has, nor if it be crooked of claw, and armed with horrible fangs.... And of wild beasts you cannot say that they were ever known to eat their own mother, but Nero gorged himself on this diet.” " (http://www3.telus.net/trbrooks/Nero.htm)
-his cruelty, like Hitler's, far exceeds the cruelty the majority of humans have exhibited: "Nero ruthlessly murdered his parents, his brother, his pregnant wife (whom he kicked to death) and other family members. He was a homosexual, who found sexual gratification in watching torture. He enjoyed dressing up as a wild beast and raping male and female prisoners. He illuminated his garden parties with the bodies of Christians, covered with pitch and set aflame." (http://www3.telus.net/trbrooks/Nero.htm)
-he committed suicide as Hitler, another type of the Anti-Christ did
-A FORESHADOWING OF WHAT THE ANTI-CHRIST WILL DO TO PEOPLE WHO WORSHIP GOD INSTEAD OF HIM DURING THE GREAT TRIBULATION: He had them [Christians] thrown to dogs, nailed to crosses in his gardens, and burned alive to serve as living torches in the night (Tacitus, Annals, XV.44) FOLLOW CHRIST WHOLEHEARTEDLY NOW SO THAT YOU CAN BE RAPTURED AND AVOID THE TRIBULATION, FRIEND!

-ROME, THE SEAT OF THE CATHOLIC POPE, IS THE "WHORE OF THE BABYLON" WHICH HAS "DECEIVED THE WHOLE EARTH" (REVELATION 17-18)

pope Young Pope Ratzinger giving Nazi salute Catholic Inquisition: burning at the stake

pope Pope bowing before statue of Virgin Mary, the Catholic idol; "Thou shalt not bow down before them." (Exodus 20)

semiramis "Virgin" Queen of Babylon mary paganized Virgin Mary [whom Catholics call "the Queen of Heaven" & Madonna] & Child in Catholic churches is a type ofTHE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION IN THE "HOLY" (Gk. "HAGIOS") PLACE (Matt. 24:15) a.k.a. "THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST" (Rev. 13:14)
madonna Madonna the "Queen of Pop"

http://www.wayoflife.org/fbns/harlot.htm: Why Rome is the "whore of Babylon"

Why Roman Catholicism is Not Christianity

---GOD'S MESSAGE TO CATHOLICS: "COME AWAY FROM HER [ROME, SOURCE OF CATHOLIC DOCTRINE] MY PEOPLE, LEST YOU PARTAKE OF HER SINS & HER PUNISHMENTS!" (REV. 18:4) STOP NEGLECTING THE BIBLE: "RECEIVE THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT, WHICH IS GOD'S WORD" SO YOU CAN FIGHT THE DEVIL (EPHESIANS 6:17)

PLOTINUS'S "THREE PRIMAL HYPOSTASES"

Many and I presume all of Plotinus’s works concern what he calls “the THREE primal hypostases”: the “Good” or the “One,” the “Intelligence,” and the “Soul.” Although he is not a Christian who reads the Bible, and never even appears to explicitly refer to the Bible, HE APPEARS TO TALK ABOUT NOTHING BUT THE PERSONS OF THE TRINITY! In fact, many early Christian theologians looked to his works in their attempts to understand the Trinity! He might have been familiar with Christian doctrine, insofar as his teacher Ammonius Saccas also taught Origen, who was very familiar with Christian doctrine. In any case, the rest of this website suggests that these like the Trimurti of Hinduism & Trikaya of Buddhism are Satan's inventions designed to divert people from worshipping the three persons of God.

Here are some of the similarities:

“The One or the Good” is called “the source of all reality” (The Essential Plotinus , pg.76); it is “infinite in its limitless power” (81); and it “does not occupy space.” (81) “The Good” is a fitting title for God the Father, for He is perfectly good and makes “everything work for the good of those who love God.” (Romans 8:28) God is even called “Love.” (1 John) Also, “the idea of the Good” which is discussed in Books VI & VII of Plato’s Republic and is compared by Plato to the Sun is God, and Plotinus’s theories are heavily based on his interpretations of Plato’s works.

“The Intelligence” or “Mind” (Nous) is “begotten” by the One (97), as Jesus is the “only-begotten Son of God”; it is called the “Word” of the One (98), as Jesus the Son of God is (John 1:1); is said to be that from which the human soul proceeds (79), as Jesus is said to create all things; and it is said to be the source of knowledge (79). This is a fitting title for Jesus, the Son of God, for it is said that “in Christ are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hid.” (Colossians 2:3) Also, Christ is called “Wisdom” in Proverbs 8, but you wouldn’t know that unless you first realized that every book of the Bible is about Christ, as I show in Part Three.

“The Soul” (Psuche) is begotten by “The Intelligence” (93); it is said to have a “multiplicity of souls proceed from it” and to think about “what is above itself” (65), i.e. the Good & the Intelligence, Both psuche and pneuma (the word used in the Bible in reference to the “Holy Spirit”) can mean “spirit” or “soul.”

Plotinus says that “the sphere of the divine stops here at the Soul” (100), and thereby seems to imply that “The One or the Good,” “The Intelligence,” and “The Soul” are the only three divine persons.

Furthermore, St. Augustine talks about in Book VII.13-15 of The Confessions how he saw in “Platonists” such as Plotinus remarkable similarities to teachings of the Bible, such as how the Word was God & was the “true light,” and how there is a Son of God (presumably “The Intelligence”) who is equal in nature to and coeternal with God.

Plotinus. The Essential Plotinus. Trans. Elmer O’Brien. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1964.

Plotinus. The Essential Plotinus. (Trans. Elmer O’Brien. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1964.)

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TRANSITION TO MODERNITY:

JOAN OF ARC

(From Wikipedia:)

[1] (c. 1412[2] – 30 May 1431) also known as "the Maid of Orleans," was a 15th century Catholic saint, and [the] national heroine of France. [So is Jesus the greatest hero, and symbolized by the greatest heroes including Achilles, Odysseus, & Aeneas.] A peasant girl born in Eastern France, Joan led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, claiming divine guidance [Truly was Jesus taught by God and truly does He give victory to whom He wishes, including Cyrus the Great, Alexander the Great, & Julius Caesar, who are all types of Him.]…She was captured by the English, tried by an ecclesiastical court and burned at the stake by the English when she was nineteen years old. [So was Jesus killed on wood to which He was bound at a young age.] Twenty-four years later, the Holy See reviewed the decision of the ecclesiastical court, found her innocent, and declared her a martyr. She was beatified in 1909 and later canonized in 1920. Joan asserted that she had visions from God that told her to recover her homeland from English domination late in the Hundred Years' War…

Joan of Arc has remained an important figure throughout Western culture. From Napoleon to the present, French politicians of all leanings have invoked her memory. Major writers and composers who have created works about her include Shakespeare, Voltaire, Schiller, Verdi, Tchaikovsky, Twain, and Shaw. Depictions of her continue in film, television, video games, song, and dance… The unusual wealth of primary source material is one reason DeVries declares, "No person of the Middle Ages, male or female, has been the subject of more study" [Jesus is even more popular]…

The trial record demonstrates her remarkable intellect. The transcript's most famous exchange is an exercise in subtlety. "Asked if she knew she was in God's grace, she answered: 'If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.'"[39] The question is a scholarly trap. Church doctrine held that no one could be certain of being in God's grace. If she had answered yes, then she would have convicted herself of heresy. If she had answered no, then she would have confessed her own guilt…

Joan of Arc came from an obscure village and rose to prominence, when she was barely more than a child.

Flag of Charles de Gaulle's government in exile during World War II. The French Resistance used the cross of Lorraine as a symbolic reference to Joan of Arc.
cross

Two movies about her in the Twentieth Century were called “The Passion of Joan of Arc” & “The Messenger” (Jesus was the “messenger” or “angel of the covenant,” according to Malachi 3:1-2)

She was canonized a saint in Notre Dame, whose Twin Towers are counterfeits of God the Father & God the Son, as I will discuss in my section on 9/11.

SANTA CLAUS, OR "KRISS KRINGLE" (FROM "CHRISTKINDL," THE "LITTLE CHRIST CHILD")= SATAN CLAWS, SYMBOL OF THE FUTURE ANTI-CHRIST

Truly does the Bible say that Satan is the "god of this world," although God is the ultimate ruler of this world and Satan is only an intermediate ruler which He uses as a tool. Santa is Satan's way of trying to take away Christ's glory on December 25th, the day Christ was supposedly born, and the day all those other saviors who resemble Christ so much were supposed to have been born. (ex. Horus and others- see table of Contents)

For much more info about these resemblances, type "Satan Santa" into Google Search & see http://www.av1611.org/othpubls/santa.html

santa Santa

LEONARDO DA VINCI-MICHAELANGELO-RAPHAEL
Often called “The Three High Renaissance Giants”

The Italian High Renaissance is the defining movement in art history. No other artistic movement has contributed more to development of art as a whole. Before the Italian Renaissance artist held the same position in society as any other skilled craftsmen and were given as much respect as carpenters and goldsmiths. But, in the 1400's this all changed. A new revolution in art opened the eyes of the world to the glory of the world itself. Before 1400 the primary subjects of art were religious in nature. Aside from commissioned portraits most artists made their livings painting biblical scenes and portraits of saints. It was generally assumed that only religious imagery was deserving of reproduction…During the Renaissance a new interest in Greek and Roman culture lead to an explosion in knowledge about the human form along with innovations in mathematics and science. Suddenly, all creations of God, and the human form in particular became revered as testament to God's great power and perfection. Beauty became connected to morality and the pursuit of beauty in art became widespread…Artist themselves were elevated in social status and their works were looked upon not as mere crafts, but as miraculous creations that were divinely inspired. At the forefront of the Renaissance movement where the three most prominent artists of the Italian Renaissance; Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Raphael. (from http://www.lifeinitaly.com/art/renaissance.asp)

(from Wikipedia:)

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath, having been a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer [As was Jesus, for, as I show in Part Three, He helped author the works of the greatest musicians Bach-Mozart-Beethoven & the greatest writers Homer, Aeschylus-Sophocles-Euripides, Plato, Aristotle, & Virgil, and many of the most famous buildings in history including The Colossus of Rhodes & The Statue of Liberty, Notre Dame & The Twin Towers. And so can we probably expect Jesus to correctly answer any question posed by those who meet Him in the New Jerusalem, as Solomon a type of Christ answers any question asked of him in 1 Kings 10.]… Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the "Renaissance man", a man whose seemingly infinite curiosity was equalled only by his powers of invention.[1] He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived.[2]… It is primarily as a painter that Leonardo was and is renowned. Two of his works, the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, occupy unique positions as the most famous, most reproduced and most parodied portrait and religious painting of all time, their fame approached only by Michelangelo's Creation of Adam.[1]… As an engineer, Leonardo's ideas were vastly ahead of his time. He conceptualised a helicopter, a tank, concentrated solar power, a calculator, the double hull and outlined a rudimentary theory of plate tectonics. [“In Christ are all the treasures of wisdom & knowledge hid” (Colossians 2:3), so seek Him if you seek wisdom.]… Within his own lifetime his extraordinary powers of invention, his "outstanding physical beauty", "infinite grace", "great strength and generosity", "regal spirit and tremendous breadth of mind" as described by Vasari[9] attracted the curiosity of others [So was Christ “fairer than the sons of men” (Psalm 45:2), along with many types of Him such as Achilles, Alexander the Great, & Augustus.]… Vasari, in his Lives of the Artists written about thirty years after Leonardo's death, described him as having talents that "transcended nature"… the biographer known as "Anonimo Gaddiano" wrote, c. 1540: "His genius was so rare and universal that it can be said that nature worked a miracle on his behalf”… The famous art historian Bernard Berenson wrote in 1896: "Leonardo is the one artist of whom it may be said with perfect literalness: Nothing that he touched but turned into a thing of eternal beauty.” [So does Christ make everything, including the characters of human beings, beautiful! “Hunger & thirst for righteousness” (Matt. 5) if you too seek to be beautiful.]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Da_Vinci_Code: It is a worldwide bestseller which had 60.5 million copies in print by May 2006 and has been translated into 44 languages. It is thought to be the 19th best-selling book of all time...The interpretation of hidden messages in Leonardo's famous works, (which relate to the concept of the sacred feminine) including the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, figure prominently in the solution to the mystery.

Darth Vader demon in his paintings

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni[1] (March 6, 1475 – February 18, 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet and engineer. Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival and fellow Italian Leonardo da Vinci… Michelangelo's output in every field during his long life was prodigious; when the sheer volume of correspondence, sketches and reminiscences that survive is also taken into account, he is the best-documented artist of the 16th century… In a demonstration of Michelangelo's unique standing, he was the first Western artist whose biography was published while he was alive.[2] Two biographies were published of him during his lifetime; One of them, by Giorgio Vasari, proposed that he was the pinnacle of all artistic achievement since the beginning of the Renaissance, a viewpoint that continued to have currency in art history for centuries. In his lifetime he was also often called Il Divino ("the divine one")… Michelangelo was a profound perfectionist. If he found the tiniest flaw in one of his works, he considered it ruined[4]. [So are God’s works perfect!]…[His paintings “The Last Judgment” & the ones on the Sistine Chapel ceiling are often considered the most famous in history.]

lastjdgmnt From “The Last Judgment”: what happens to those who don’t believe & follow Jesus

Raphael Sanzio, usually known by his first name alone (in Italian Raffaello)[1] (April 6 or March 28, 1483 – April 6, 1520)[2] was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. Raphael was enormously productive [like many other symbols of God, including Plato, Aristotle, & Aeschylus-Sophocles-Euripides, and so should we be, for we should be “zealous for good works” (Titus 2:14)] and, despite his early death at thirty-seven, a large body of his work remains, especially in the Vatican. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, but after his death the influence of his great rival Michelangelo was more widespread until the 18th and 19th centuries, when his more serene and harmonious qualities were again regarded as the highest models... Raphael was clearly influenced by Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling in the course of painting the room. Michelangelo accused Raphael of plagiarism and years after Raphael's death, complained in a letter that "everything he knew about art he got from me" [So too did Socrates & Plato influence Aristotle, who were all types of Christ, & Bach Mozart & Beethoven.]… Raphael was one of the finest draftsmen in the history of Western art… Raphael's premature death on Good Friday (April 6, 1520) (possibly his 37th birthday) [Jesus too was thought to have died on Good Friday, & Abraham Lincoln, a type of the Antichrist, died on Good Friday of 1865. Joan of Arc, Mozart, & Alexander the Great, other types of Christ, died at about age 19, 33, & 36 respectively. As one member of the Trinity Bach-Mozart-Beethoven died in his thirties, so did one & only one member of the Trinity Leonardo-Michelangelo-Raphel die in his thirties]

MEANING OF THEIR NAMES
A small percentage of people have names which echo Jesus so strongly as these:
-From Germanic leon, lion + hard, hardy: having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships. A hardy plant is one that can withstand the extremes of climate, such as frost. [Christ is called “The Lion of Judah” (Revelation 5:5), and endured hardship, including the devastation during and prior to His Crucifixion. The heroes of The Iliad & The Odyssey, who are types of Christ, are compared to lions probably more than any other animal.]
-Italian Michele + Angelo, referring to Michael the Archangel. Michael: from Hebrew ????? (mikhael, “who is like God?”). [Jesus was “The Angel of the LORD” in the Old Testament (as I show in Part One) & is greater than all other angels, as archangels are the chief angels.]
-Hebrew "God cures" or "God has healed". “…one of the seven holy angels, which present the prayers of the saints, and which go in and out before the glory of the Holy One.” (Tobit 12:15) [So does Jesus intercede for us before God the Father (Hebrews 9), sit at the right hand of the Father, and heal of physical & spiritual sickness (i.e. sin).]

'Satanic' turtle survives inferno

SHAKESPEARE (ALSO SPELLED SHAKES-SPEARE, SHAKE-SPEAR)

Evidence that Shakespeare's works were inspired by demons, so his works must be shunned like the plague and we must seek to keep others away from them as well:

1. His name:

-"POEMS :WRITTEN BY WIL. SHAKES-SPEARE. Gent.Printed at London by Tho. Cotes and are
to be sold by John Benson dwelling in
St. Dunstan's Churchyard 1640."

The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth [a sphere] shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel. (Joel 3:16) Satan wasn't kidding when he said "I will resemble the most High [God]." (Isaiah 14:14)

-"The Stratfordians say that these Sonnets were written by Will Shakspere of Stratford,but they offer no explanation of the fact that Shakspere has changed his name from Shakspere to Shake-spear. The name Shake-spear is not the name of any person but is a "nom-de-plume" derived from the Greek goddess Pallas Athene, who in statuary art is depicted as holding a spear striking at a serpent representing ignorance...If the greatest problem in literature is the authorship of the Shakspeare plays and poems-then the greatest mystery is the riddle of Shakespear's Sonnets." (SHAKE-SPEAR'S SONNETS)

a) We shall break in here to quote from Edwin Reed's Prefatory Address to the Folio: "In Grecian mythology," he writes, "Pallas Athena was the goddess of wisdom, philosophy, poetry, and the fine arts. Her original name simply Pallas ... from pallein, signifying to brandish or shake. Athens, the home of the drama, was under the protection of this spear-shaker." (http://www.sourcetext.com/sourcebook/Star/ch14.html) Since the pagan gods were demons (1 Corinthians 10:19, Deuteronomy 32:17), we can conclude that Shake-spear was possessed by a demon, perhaps Athena herself!

According to authorship researcher Mark Anderson, the hyphenated "Shake-speare" is another example in this vein, alluding to the patron goddess of art and literature, Athena, who sprang from the forehead of Zeus, shaking a spear. Thus, we can conclude that Shake-spear too was born of a pagan god like Zeus, which according to 1 Corinthians 10:19 is a demon.

In the Iliad of demon-possessed Homer, Zeus sends Iris with a message for Hera and Athena, who delivers the message nearly verbatim:
"Here is Father's threat--he will fulfill it too:
he'll maim your racers for you,
...he'll hurl you from your chariots, smash your car,
...and not once in the course of ten slow wheeling years
will you heal the wounds his lightning bolt rips open!
...You, you insolent brazen bitch--you really dare
to shake that monstrous spear in Father's face?" (pg. 487 of Fagles translation)

b) "God is our refuge and our strength, a very present help in time of trouble. Therefore will we not fear...though the mountains shake...He makes wars to cease to the end of the earth; He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two." (Psalm 46:1-3,9) God means by this that He is going "to dash them ["the heathen," including Shakespeare if he never repented and the demon[s] who inhabited him.] in pieces like a potter's vessel" (Psalm 2:9) as the following mind-blowing info makes clear:

666 - the original Kings James Version Bible and Shakespeare: "we have Psalms 46 on the 666th ("the number of man" mentioned in Rev. 13:18 & associated with the Antichrist "the beast") page of actual printed content of the 1611 King James Version of the Holy Bible, and counting back from the end we find that Psalms 46 is the 666th chapter from the end of the 1611 King James Version of the Holy Bible [and Shakes-speare was 46 when the King James was first published!]...The work I do involves two numbers known as the Secret Shakespearean Seal numbers, 157 and 287. Using the same counting method that produces the 46th word from the beginning and end can be flipped around. There are 111 words between Shake and Speare. This makes 157 words after the word "Shake", and 157 words before "Speare." Although not as well known, this is much more siginificant..." + other cipher codes mentioned connecting Psalm 46 with Shake-spear

c) the spear is associated with the spear which a demon caused to be pierced in Jesus' side (John 19), with the "Spear of Destiny" said to have supernatural powers which was sought by the antichrist Hitler, and with the spears carried by the antichrists of the Iliad & Aeneid such as Achilles & Aeneas.

2. "Satan blinds the thoughts of unbelievers so the Good News of Christ not beam forth." (2 Corinthians 4:4): http://askville.amazon.com/Shakespeare-write-King-James-Bible/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=10214882: "the language of this version is so musical that many folks believe that Shakespeare must have been involved...The KJV was written in Shakespeare's presumed 46th year of life (we aren't precisely sure of his actual birth year). Psalm 46 has as the 46th word from the beginning the word "shake." Then the 46th word from the end of the psalm is the word "spear." This, argues some folks, is a clue that Shakespeare included to let folks know he was involved."

3. Demons exceed humans in intelligence, for Satan "deceiveth the whole world" (Revelation 12:9): "A further argument against the mainstream view posited by authorship doubters is the erudition of Shakespeare's works, including an enormous vocabulary of approximately 29,000 different words.[6] The exceptionally large vocabulary of over 29,000 different words - including word variations - is almost five times that of the King James Version of the Bible, which contains approximately 6,000 different words. Many have found it difficult to believe that a 16th-century commoner, with no university education, could be so well-versed in English language and literature, as well as a number of other disciplines including politics, law, medicine, and languages. Authorship doubters believe that the available information about Shakespeare's life offers no proof that he was able to write the works attributed to him......In addition doubters assert that the plays require a level of education (including knowledge of foreign languages) greater than that which Shakespeare is known to have possessed"

4. God gives plentiful signs to manifest what works are the works of demons. In the case of Shakespeare, God made the authorship of Shakespeare's works a mystery so that diligent seekers after truth could discover that the true author of Shake-spear's works were one or more demons: "On September 8, 2007, acclaimed British actors Derek Jacobi and Mark Rylance unveiled a "declaration of reasonable doubt" on the authorship of Shakespeare's work, after the final matinee of I Am Shakespeare, a play investigating the bard's identity, performed in Chichester, England. The "declaration" named 20 prominent doubters of the past, including Mark Twain, Orson Welles, Sir John Gielgud and Charlie Chaplin. The document was sponsored by the Shakespeare Authorship Coalition and has been signed online by over 1,000 people, including 200 academics, to encourage new research into the question." (Wikipedia)

5. Demons can travel far distances, for they have wings and can presumably travel very quickly because they don't have bodies weighing them down: "Most anti-Stratfordians believe that a well-travelled man wrote the plays, as many of them are set in European countries and show great attention to local details." (Wikipedia)

6. Demon(s) used Shakespeare to distract people from being "hearers & doers of the Word" of God to wasting their time on Shakespeare. God had me study over twelve of Shakespeare's plays very carefully for months so that I could see that though they can be extremely pleasing to investigate, they are vanity at bottom, and don't offer a substantial amount of knowledge which a person can use to promote the glory of God, as we are supposed to do in every action we take. (1 Corinthians 10:31) Notice how this person makes an idol of his plays: "The plays of Shakespeare," said Henry Stratford Caldecott in an 1895 Johannesburg lecture, "are so stupendous a monument of learning and genius that, as time passes and they are probed and searched and analysed by successive generations of scholars and critics of all nations, they seem to loom higher and grander, and their hidden beauties and treasured wisdom to be more and more inexhaustible."

7. Demons know the true God very well, for they are fallen from Heaven. (Rev. 12:4) That is why Shake-spear, like the antichrist Lincoln, quotes very frequently from at least 42 of the Bible's 66 books. Shakespeare & the Bible. Don't be deceived by Satan!

8. His works:

witches Macbeth's 3 Witches: Demon's counterfeit of Holy Trinity

hamlet Hamlet's "Oedipus [another antichrist] Complex" discovered by antichrist Sigmund Freud

i) Hamlet & Macbeth were revealed by the antichrist Sigmund Freud to resemble the antichrist Oedipus of the antichrist Sophocles's Oedipus plays in VERY NUMEROUS & UNCOMMON ways, and were said by Freud to reveal that Shakes-speare himself had an "Oedipus complex," according to his The Interpretation of Dreams which I read at St. John's College with the other "classic" works of demons. The Three Witches of Macbeth are an evil counterfeit of the Holy Trinity analagous to the Three ugly Gorgons including Medusa of the ancient Greeks! And these two plays are read in practically every high school in America! Truly "the whole world lies in the power of the Evil One." (1 John 5:19) Lady Macbeth resembles the demonic "Dark Lady" of the Sonnets to whom Shakespeare is enslaved, whom you will shortly read more about.

ii) King Lear: Many people consider King Lear to be his finest work. Whether or not you agree with his vision of a godless universe in which our only hope is to be kind to one another, you will recognize the real beliefs of many (if not most) of your neighbors.

Characters in King Lear often talk about "the gods" (the setting is pagan Britain); "God" is mentioned only once by King Lear...King Lear swears by Apollo and Jupiter (and Kent, as a bitter joke, swears by Jupiter's wife Juno)...It seems to me that Shakespeare is saying, as clearly as he can, what many people in his own day must have believed secretly. There is no God. The comforts of religion are make-believe.

The jester calls Lear a zero without a preceding figure, or "nothing." The antichrist Homer's Odysseus, a type of the Antichrist, is famous for saying to the giant Polyphemus (made by Homer's demon to resemble Goliath) that his name was "Nobody."

iii) Romeo & Juliet: shares eerie resemblances with the Antigone of the antichrist Sophocles, which like Romeo & Juliet is read in practically every high school in America! As Haemon stabs himself to be united with Antigone in death, so does Romeo stab himself to be united with Juliet in death.

iv) Shakespeare resembles the Satanic trinity of Aeschylus-Sophocles-Euripides by being along with them the most famous tragedians.

v) Shakespeare is apparently alluded to hundreds of years before his birth by the demon-possessed Plato in the very famous Symposium, when Socrates argues in one of the very last lines of the play that the same person is capable of writing tragedy and comedy, as Shakespeare was famous for both kinds, a demonic feat given how unusual it is.

vi) Shakespeare's "Sonnets" inspired by demon[s]:

The only edition of the sonnets published in Shakespeare's lifetime, the 1609 Quarto, is dedicated to one "Mr. W.H.". The reality, identity and age of this person remain a mystery and have caused a great deal of speculation. "TO.THE.ONLIE.BEGETTER.OF.THESE.ENSUING.SONNETS. Mr.W.H. [a name often given to the White House, where many demons have resided, for instance in Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, & JFK] ALL.HAPPINESSE..." It is very interesting that there is only one begetter, because the sonnets appear to have three begetters since they are addressed to three different people! Apparently, Shakespeare was being governed by a demon who tried to be three persons in one God just like the Holy Trinity, as demons have done throughout history in all countries (ex. "The Three Sovereigns" & "Three Pure Ones" including Lao-Tzu of China, the Hindu "Trimurti" & the Buddhist "Trikaya" of India, the various trinities in Ancient Greece such as "The Three Fates" & "The Three Graces") for Shakespeare is so enamored by these three persons he addresses that he even says he is "captive" to one of them. (Sonnet 154)

a) The 'Fair Youth': is an unnamed young man to whom sonnets 1-126 are addressed. The poet writes of the young man in romantic and loving language, a fact which has led several commentators to suggest a homosexual relationship between them. God says: "do not be deceived...homosexuals ["those who lie outstretched with men"]...will not inherit the kingdom of God." (1 Corinthians 6:9-10) This was perhaps a demon which imitated God by seeking to be like the Messiah "fairer than the sons of men." (Psalm 45:2)

b) The Rival Poet: "There is no hard evidence that the character had a real-life counterpart. The Poet sees the Rival as competition for fame and patronage. The sonnets most commonly identified as The Rival Poet group exist within the Fair Youth series in sonnets 78-86." Shakespeare was more concerned with glorifying himself than doing everything for the glory of God (1 Cor. 10:31), and therefore was abiding in sin when he wrote these sonnets:

c) THE DARK LADY OF SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS Who was the Dark Lady addressed within the sonnets 127 to 152?

"It is implied that the speaker of the sonnets and the Lady had a passionate affair, but that she was unfaithful, perhaps with the "Fair Youth".

Many poets of the Elizabethan and Jacobean age [including Spenser & Sidney] wrote verse to others and did not refrain from identifying who they were addressing." The demon(s) in Shake-spear was concealing his identity in order to deceive Shake-spear's audience.

"Therefore my mistress' eyes are raven [one of the unclean animals of Leviticus 11 which symbolize demons]-black,
Her brow so suited, and they mourners seem" (#127)

"If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head." (#130) "Here, the lady is described as having dun breasts which now clearly describes the woman's skin-colour as either dark-brown or black." [Wrong interpretation. Rather, this verse means that the demon is an "authority of darkness." (Ephesians 6:12)]

"In nothing art thou black save in thy deeds,
And thence this slander, as I think, proceeds." (#131) Yes, for the possessing demon is causing Shake-spear to lead many to sin.

"The better angel is a man right fair,
The worser spirit a woman coloured ill." (Sonnet 144) "In defining the man, the better of the two and an angel, as fair he defines the woman, the worser of the two and a devil as coloured ill, i.e. black."

"Conclusive evidence for the Dark Lady being a black woman lies in Love's Labours Lost, Act 4, Scene 3, in a remarkable dialogue between the King and Biron which perfectly correlates with the words and descriptions of the Dark Lady sonnets. In this passage, Biron claims the woman he loves to be fairer than the women of the day who wear cosmetics and wigs to try and beautify themselves which his lover does not need. His lover is defined as being as black as ebony:

"King: "O paradox! Black is the badge of hell,
The hue of dungeons and the style of night,
And beauty’s crest becomes the heavens well."

Biron: "Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light. [as does this "Dark Lady"]
O, if in black my lady’s brows be decked,
It mourns that painting and usurping hair
Should ravish doters with a false aspect,
And therefore is she born to make black fair...

Biron: "I’ll prove her fair, or talk till doomsday here."

King: "No devil will fright thee then so much as she."

Dumaine: "I never knew man hold vile stuff so dear."

"Shakespeare's relationship with the Dark Lady is almost exclusively described in a sexual context. There are no parties, functions, marriage or children. She is the inspiration for Shakespeare's most graphically sexual sonnets. Sonnet 129 is centred on lust and though it makes no direct reference to the Dark Lady it is in the same series in which she is referred. Sonnet 135 and 136 puns extensively on the author's name and its alternative slang meaning for the male sexual organ. Again, although no specific reference is made to the Dark Lady, it sits within the series in which she is addressed. Sonnet 148's "Lest eyes, well seeing, thy foul faults should find!" This leads us to Sonnet 137's line: "Be anchored in the bay where all men ride" an obvious euphemism for the Dark Lady's sexual promiscuity.

Ultimately, it is Sonnet 150 which alludes to the practised skill of the Dark Lady in what she does:
"Whence hast thou this becoming of things ill,
That in the very refuse of thy deeds
There is such strength and warrantise of skill
That in my mind thy worst all best exceeds?"
and the whole sonnet is a multi-faceted definition of the woman being a whore as explained here.
In conclusion then, I am convinced that the Dark Lady was a black woman [rather, black in deeds] who was also a whore. [Sounds like the "whore of Babylon" of Revelation 17 which rides on Satan!]

Shake-spear was a diseased "slave of sin" (John 8:34), as is revealed by the last sentence of his Sonnets:

"...a bath and healthful remedy
For men diseased; but I, my mistress' thrall [slave],
Came there for cure, and this by that I prove,
Love's fire heats water, water cools not love." (Sonnet 154)

lady macbeth Lady Macbeth, The "Dark Lady"?

BACH??????????????-MOZART-BEETHOVEN (17th-19th century)

"Bach gave us God’s word, Mozart God's laughter and Beethoven gave us God's fire, and God gave us music so that we can pray without words" — written in front of an old German opera house.

If you type in these three names into Google, you will see page after page in which they are mentioned together and are exalted above all other composers!

Like the other symbols of the trinity throughout history (Socrates-Plato-Aristotle, Aeschylus-Sophocles-Euripides, etc.), they all lived during the same century: the 18th.

-WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (from Wikipedia:)
-“Amadeus” means ‘the one loved by God’. Undoubtedly, one of the most prolific and creative composers, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s genius was unparalleled.
-In the diary of Schubert, another musical giant, he writes: “O, immortal Mozart, how many inspired suggestions of a better life have you left in your souls.”
-He had said: “As death when we come to consider it closely is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling. And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity … of learning that death is the key that unlocks the door to our true happiness.”
-‘If there remains any doubt of Mozart’s tryst with the Absolute, it resolves itself with one quote of his: “Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of a genius. Love, love, love that is the soul of a genius.” With this one confession, Mozart reveals the power of both his music and his soul.’ So was Jesus, God’s Son, filled with love!

-“The Mozart Effect”
“Lately, researchers unanimously agree that the work of one composer in particular -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- mysteriously rises above all other forms of music in its power to heal the human body. So is it Christ alone who can heal you from all your sins, if you pray to Him to do so, and fill you with love!!!

Mozart effect is the observation that a brief stint of Mozart, but not other music, may improve learning and memory.

The Mozart effect first came to light in 1993, when Fran Rauscher, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, US, and colleagues showed that college students who listened to Mozart's Sonata for 10 minutes performed better on a spatial reasoning test than students who listened to new age music or nothing at all.
“It has been found that regardless of a listener's tastes or previous exposure to the composer, the music of Mozart invariably calmed listeners. It was found that Mozart indisputably achieved the best results which were long term in nature irrespective of region and culture.”So does Jesus bring peace to people of every region, regardless of how sinful they have been!!!
“In monasteries in Brittany, monks found that playing Mozart in front of cows made them give more milk.
A renditon of Mozart and baroque music during English classes for new arrivals from Cambodia, Laos, and other Asian countries speeded up their learning.
The city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, pipes Mozart string quartets into the city squares to CALM pedestrian traffic. Officials found, in addition to other benefits, DRUG DEALINGS HAVE LESSENED.
In northern Japan, Ohara Brewery finds that when Mozart is played near yeast, that yeast makes the best sake. The density of yeast used for brewing the traditional rice wine -- a measure of quality-increases by a factor of ten when the yeast "listen" to Mozart. THIS HAPPENS TO SHOW THAT MORE PEOPLE ARE COMING TO BE CHRISTIANS BECAUSE THEY ARE ALL LISTENING TO GOD’S SON!!! For Christ says: “The kingdom of the heavens is like yeast, which a woman, having taken it, hid three seahs of meal in it, until the whole of it was raised.” (Matt. 13:33) The “three seahs” are the three persons of the Trinity, who have been gradually conquering more and more hearts throughout the world!

-Mozart died at age 35. In comparison, Bach lived 65 years and Beethoven lived 57 years. Hence, it seems to me that Mozart symbolizes the Second Person of the Trinity- Jesus- who died at age 33, especially since Bach who comes before him is called the “Father” of Western classical music and since Beethoven comes after him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.copperwiki.org/index.php/Mozart_effect

ABRAHAM LINCOLN & JOHN F. KENNEDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lincoln

There are so many similarities between Lincoln and Kennedy, that, as was true with Confucius-Socrates and Achilles-Odysseus-Aeneas, if one of them is a type of the Antichrist, so must the other one be. Here are many of the mind-blowing similarities, from http://www.tektonics.org/gk/homermark.html:

Both Lincoln and Kennedy were concerned with civil rights.

Lincoln was elected President in 1860. Kennedy in 1960.

Both were slain on a Friday and in the presence of their wives. [JP note: McKinley was assassinated on a Friday, as well!] [So is Jesus thought to have died on Good Friday, though falsely apparently.]

Both were shot from behind and in the head. [JP note: McKinley was shot in the chest and abdomen -- this could be cited by D. R. MacDonald, year 3000, as an example of "transvaluation" of the text!] [So was Jesus’ body “pierced” right before He died.]

Their successors, both named Johnson, were Southern Democrats and both were in the Senate.

Andrew Johnson was born in 1808. Lyndon Johnson in 1908.

John Wilkes Booth was born in 1839. Lee Harvey Oswald in 1939.

Booth and Oswald were Southerners who favored unpopular ideas. [JP note: This is a "vague generalization" coincidence of the sort we will find throughout HEGM.]

Both Presidents lost children through death while in the White House.

Lincoln's secretary, whose name was Kennedy, advised him not to go to the theater.

Kennedy's secretary, whose name was Lincoln, advised him not to go to Dallas.

John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in a theater and ran to a warehouse. Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and ran to a theater.

The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters. [“Seven” is God’s number of perfection. For instance, God creates the world in 7 “days.”]

The names Andrew Johnson and Lyndon Johnson each contain 13 letters.

The names John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald each contain 15 letters.

Both assassins were killed before being brought to trial.

Lincoln was shot in the Ford's Theater. Kennedy was shot in a Ford car. (And, as a matter of fact...it was a Lincoln!)

More similarities between Lincoln and Kennedy and their deaths: Lincoln was an unsuccessful candidate for vp in 1856; JFK was an unsuccessful vp candidate in 1956. Both of their vice presidents, Lyndon Johnson and Andrew Johnson were older than but died 10 years after their respective chiefs. In 1860 Lincoln beat Stephen Douglas, born in 1813, with less than 50 percent of the vote; in 1960, Kennedy beat Richard Nixon, born in 1913, with less than 50 percent of the vote. Lincoln and Kennedy each were killed in public, and each was accompanied by someone who was also injured but did not die in the attack. (And interestingly, Garfield and McKinley, the other two presidents who were assassinated, actually died of infection from their wounds, not the wounds themselves.)

Other similarities that I found on http://rr-bb.com/showthread.php?t=60496: "Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846
Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946. Lincoln wife lost a child while living in the White House
Kennedy wife lost a child while living in the White House. There were theories that Booth was part of a greater conspiracy
There were theories that Oswald was part of a greater conspiracy."

And here are some more, from the website http://www.kingdavid8.com/Copycat/Home.html which mentions them to argue that Jesus' life wasn't based on the stories of the pagan gods, just as the website which is the source of the first list of similarities I quoted above mentions that list to argue that Jesus' life wasn't based on the story of Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey! These two people failed to realize that God modeled Lincoln's & JFK's lives on Jesus' as well!!!!!!!!!!

1. Both Lincoln and Kennedy were elected to Congress in '46 (1846 in Lincoln's case, 1946 in Kennedy's). Both became President in '60.
2. Both had lazy eye muscles which would cause one eye to wander.
3. Both had been skippers on boats (Lincoln on the Mississippi river boat 'Talisman' and Kennedy on the PT-109)
4. Both were the second sons in their families. Each lost a sister to death before becoming President. Both married 24-year-old brunettes who had been previously engaged to other men, and who spoke French fluently.
5. Both had a child die while living in the White House.
6. Both were related to U.S. Senators, U.S. Attorney Generals who graduated from Harvard, and ambassadors to the Court of St. James.
7. Both were acquaintances of a man named Adlai E. Stevenson who ran for either Vice-President or President, a doctor named Charles Taft and a man named William Graham.
8. Both were advised not to go to the place where they died.
9. Both Lincoln's theater box and Kennedy's car were altered for their benefit (Lincoln's theater box had a partition removed to accomodate his party, Kennedy's car had a raised rear seat)
10. Both were slain on a Friday before a major Holiday (Lincoln on the Friday before Easter [Good Friday!], Kennedy on the Friday before Thanksgiving). Both were shot while sitting next to their wives and in the presence of another couple. Of the other couple, the man was also wounded by the assassin, but neither wife was wounded.
11. Both were shot from behind and in the head. Both of their wives cradled their husband's heads after they were shot.
12. John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln from inside a theater, and fled to a warehouse. Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy from inside a warehouse and fled to a theater.
13. Lincoln was shot while inside the Ford theater, in box 7. [God's number!] Kennedy was shot while inside a Ford automobile, in car 7 in the motorcade.
14. Both were pronounced dead in places with the initials P.H. (Lincoln in the Peterson House, and Kennedy in Parkland Hospital)
15. Both of their assassins escaped, and were killed before going to trial.
16. Both of their assassins were privates in the military. Each was detained after the shooting by a policeman named Baker. Both were eventually killed by a Colt revolver.
17. Both Lincoln and Kennedy were succeeded by southern ex-senators named Johnson who were born in '08. Both Johnsons were in their mid-fifties when they took the office and both suffered from urethral stones (the only presidents to have them). Both Johnsons could have run for re-election in '68, but chose not to.

-Both Lincoln and Kennedy were “pierced” by a bullet, as Jesus truly said about Himself through David that “they pierced My hands and feet.” (Psalm 22)

-Both Lincoln and Kennedy possessed the greatest power in America when they ruled, as Jesus as God possesses the greatest power over every being except God the Father.

-Lincoln died on Good Friday April 15th, as Julius Caesar died on March 15th and Jesus died on the 15th of Nisan, which is thought to be either March or April! Jesus too is thought to have died on Good Friday, and Raphael one of a famous trio with Leonardo da Vinci & Michelangelo too died on Good Friday.

-As Lincoln saved the United States from being destroyed in the Civil War, and as Kennedy saved the United States from being destroyed by nuclear weapons during the Cold War, so does Jesus save people from being destroyed in Hell! Lincoln even speaks Jesus’ words, as Buddha, Confucius, and Socrates do without ever hearing or seeing Jesus’ words, when he says “A house divided against itself cannot stand” to explain that the United States would be destroyed if it remained divided into North and South. Truly, “THE ANSWER OF THE TONGUE IS OF THE LORD.” (Proverbs 16:1)

-He died after about 4 years of serving in a position visibly superior to everyone else, as Nelson Rockefeller did (as I discuss below), while Kennedy died about 2 years after his most famous serving in a position superior to everyone else, and as Jesus died about 3 ½ years after His most famous public service!

-Lincoln delivered black people from slavery, as Moses another type of Christ delivered the Jews from slavery, and as Jesus delivers all those who follow Him from slavery, for He truly said “If My words abide in you [i.e. if you keep meditating on what He says], you will know the truth, and the truth shall set you FREE…Everyone who sins is a SLAVE to sin.” (John 8:31-33)

JFK’s “eternal flame”

-(DON'T MISS THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) An "eternal flame" was made to rise from JFK's grave (which has a cross marked on the nameplate) THREE DAYS AFTER HIS DEATH [Truly did Jesus God the Son (who is said in Hebrews 12:29 and many other places in the Bible to be "a consuming FIRE") rise from the dead after having been "in the heart of the earth for THREE DAYS & THREE NIGHTS" (Matthew 12:40)]: (from Wikipedia:) "The gravesite is aligned with the LINCOLN Memorial across the Memorial Bridge [for God made JFK to be in many respects a duplicate of Lincoln]... The eternal flame sprang to life immediately, safely with a steady flame. This was seen live on nationwide television and broadcast to other nations by satellite [Truly was Jesus seen by "more than 500 of his followers at once" after He was resurrected from the dead (1 Corinthians 15:6)] ...in 1964 the U.S. Postal Service used an image of the eternal flame on the official postage stamp that was issued to commemorate the assassinated president. The stamp also used the words "And the glow from that fire can truly light the world" that were an excerpt from Kennedy's inaugural address [Jesus spoke truly when He said "I am the light of the world" (John 8:12)]...The selection of an eternal flame to commemorate President Kennedy was the first time in the US [and in the world] that an individual known person was given such an honor [Truly was Jesus the "firstborn from among the dead" (Colossians 1:18), i.e. the first person to be raised from death and never die again]...The present device rests on top of a five-foot circular granite stone at the head of the grave. It produces a continuous spark which re-ignites the flame whenever it is momentarily extinguished by any means (such as rain, snow, or wind). [So has Jesus never perished since He was resurrected in AD 33!]"

Lincoln acted as a dictator like Hitler, another type of the Antichrist! "Another Lincoln myth was that he "saved the Constitution." But this claim is an outrage considering that Lincoln acted like a dictator for the duration of his administration and showed nothing but bitter contempt for the Constitution. Even Lincoln’s idolaters, like historian Clinton Rossiter, author of the book, Constitutional Dictatorship, referred to him as a "great dictator" who had an "amazing disregard for the Constitution . . . that was considered by nobody as legal." Lincoln the Great Dictator

As Lincoln instigated a war against the South, so will the Antichrist "king of the north" sweep through many lands and lock horns with the "king of the south" during the Great Tribulation, the 2nd half of which will last for 3.5 years which rounds off to 4 years, as the Civil War was just under 4 years! Lincoln died immediately after the Civil War, just as the Antichrist will die at the end of the Great Tribulation! (Daniel 11:40-45)

-Lincoln's character: To many people, Lincoln, like Jesus, appeared to be a very pious man, as is evident from many of his speeches, which I have read. For instance, in his “Farewell Address [to his friends at home] of 1861,” he says: “I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of the Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell.” According to Lincoln's biographer Charles Coffin, who "saw him frequently during his Presidential term, met him socially on several occasions, ...as this biography of Lincoln unfolds, there will be seen, as the years go by and the responsibilities of life roll upon him, a reverent recognition of Divine Providence, an increasing faith and childlike trust in God," starting in 1841, a turning point in Lincoln's life. (http://forerunner.com/forerunner/X0210_Lincoln_a_Christian-.html) Lincoln was, in the words of biographers James Randall and Richard Current, "a man of more intense religiosity than any other President the United States has ever had."

(from http://www.christianitytoday.com/holidays/memorial/features/33h010.html) "That [Second Inaugural] address stands as the most remarkably Christian public statement by any American president. The critical section of the address, complete with citations from Matthew 18:7 and Psalm 19:9, deserves to be quoted in full: " [in the address and on many other occasions, Lincoln claims that the Civil War occurred to punish the United States for enslaving African-Americans and says that he thinks God won't end it yet. Was this his excuse for drawing out the war?!]

(http://www.adherents.com/people/pl/Abraham_Lincoln.html) "It was said of him, perhaps with some exaggeration, that he knew by heart much of the Psalms, the book of Isaiah, and the entire New Testament. His life also exhibited many Christian virtues..." (according to Dr. Noll, a professor of history at Wheaton College) [Jesus too quoted so often from so many places in Scripture, for He was and is God's Word.]

BUT there is even more evidence that Lincoln was not a Christian at all and that he deceived all those people, as Satan (who possesses the Antichrist) "deceives the whole world"!!!!!!! Look at some of the things quoted by him and about him by close associates: http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/lincoln.htm: "The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession." (from his wife:) "Mr. Lincoln had no hope, and no faith, in the usual acceptation of those words." Yes, Mr. Minnery, Lincoln, Like Satan, “Knew” Scripture But “Dishonest Abe” Was No Christian. If you are not raptured and have to go through the Tribulation, do not be deceived by the Antichrist!

-JFK's character: Consider the following very striking resemblances to Jesus: (quotations from TIME Magazine, July 2, 2007 issue:) " 'Nobody is going to force me to do anything I don't think is in the best interest of the country,' the president told his friend [Paul Fay] over a game of checkers at the Kennedy-family compound...'Do you think I'm going to carry on my conscience the responsibility for the wanton maiming and killing of children like our children we saw [playing] here this evening?'... This would become the major theme of the Kennedy presidency- J.F.K.'s strenuous efforts to keep the country at PEACE in the face of equally ardent pressures from Washington's warrior caste to go to war. (pg. 48)...Kennedy often said he wanted his epitaph to be 'He kept the PEACE.' (49) [Truly is Jesus "the Prince of PEACE" who will establish PEACE throughout the Earth when the present Earth passes away and is made anew! (Isaiah 9:6)]...In a speech that would go down in history as the "PEACE speech"...he attempted to humanize our enemy...Kennedy launched into a passage of such sweeping eloquence and empathy for the Russian people-the enemy that a generation of Americans had been taught to fear and despise-that it still has power to inspire. (50) [Truly did Jesus teach "Love your enemies," and truly did He live in accordance with this teaching, as He still does when He befriends people when they are still sinners!]...'One hundred years of delay have passed since PRESIDENT LINCOLN freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free'...He followed his speech by asking Congress to enact a bill that removed race from consideration in American life or law [the civil rights bill, which "outlawed segregation in all places of public accomodation-parks, buses, swimming pools, theaters, hotels, and restaurants"]. (55)...picture of Kennedy and his mother handing Cushing a $600,000 check to build a new Catholic facility for mentally handicapped children. (56)...He reaffirmed his complete independence from any Vatican agenda. [I mention this because Revelation 17-18 teaches that Rome and the pope therein have "deceived the whole Earth" with the Catholic religion. Kennedy, however, does not seem to have been very attached to Catholicism.] (59)...Ever since I [Caroline Kennedy] was a little girl, people have told me that my father changed their lives. They got involved in public service, in government, in their communities because he asked them to and they wanted to be part of something larger than themselves. President Kennedy's Inaugural Challenge-'Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country'-inspired a generation in the 1960s that transformed our nation with courage and dedication and in turn inspired those who followed (61) [Few people have had such a profound and beneficial effect on people as Jesus & JFK]...[Kennedy won the Pulitzer Prize for his book Profiles in Courage, which inspired courage in many.]...It was the simple sartorial gestures of John F. Kennedy that really shaped 20th century American style [i.e. in how one dresses and grooms oneself. So is Christ "fairer than the sons of men." (Psalm 45:2)] (63)...To this day, the overwhelming majority of the American people (75%) have bought into the conspiracy idea...desire to imbue Kennedy's death with deeper meaning than a random act of violence or a a simple relish for intrique. Despite the total lack of evidence, the story of a J.F.K. assassination conspiracy has captivated the nation for the past half-century and is likely to do so for many years to come. (67) [Kennedy's death indeed has such a deeper meaning, because it was intended by God to imitate Jesus' death through being pierced! The conspiracy theory was God's way of drawing attention to the circumstances of JFK's death!]

BUT he appears to have had illicit affairs with one or more women; he was the only Catholic U.S. president, and Catholic Rome is the whore of Babylon of Revelation 17 (as I show above), especially because of its false Catholic doctrine; the last name of his adviser Henry Kissinger in Hebrew has letters adding up to 666, the number of the beast (Rev. 13, http://www.mt.net/~watcher/kennedy.html); his family suffers the "Kennedy curse," i.e. his family members keep suffering violent deaths or other severe problems! To those who will experience the Great Tribulation, don't be deceived by the Antichrist's extreme resemblance to Christ! He will be a counterfeit Christ!

LIKE THE ANTICHRIST WILL (Revelation 13:3), LINCOLN & KENNEDY SUFFERED FATAL WOUNDS TO THE HEAD!!!!!!!

HOLOCAUST

God caused the Holocaust to happen as a warning to all who reject Christ that a "Great Tribulation" of 7 years, which will be especially severe during the last 3 1/2 years, will come upon them before Christ comes again, unless they accept Jesus as their Lord & Savior.

Undoubtedly, many people will be repulsed by my assertion that God was the ultimate cause of the Holocaust. However, I urge such people to remember how often God brought destruction upon the Jews in the Old Testament, especially for disobeying Him, for instance when He has Moses kill 3,000 Jews for not turning away from worshipping the golden calf. (Exodus 22:28) God had said to Moses upon hearing of the worship of the calf "Let Me be, that My anger may blaze forth against them and that I may destroy them." (Exodus 22:10) The LORD sent a three-day pestilence upon Israel" which killed "70,000" Jews (2 Samuel 24:15) And the Jews are disobeying God today, for "he that honors not the Son [Jesus] honors not the Father who sent Him." (John 5:23) Also, consider these two lines:

When times are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider: God has made the one as well as the other. (Ecclesiastes 7:14)

IF A TRUMPET IS BLOWN IN A CITY, WILL NOT THE PEOPLE BE AFRAID? IF THERE IS CALAMITY IN A CITY, WILL NOT THE LORD HAVE DONE IT?(Amos 3:6)

"For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved"
Matthew 24:21-22

"...in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people. And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled."
Luke 21:23-24

6 million out of about 9.5 million Jews perished in Europe during the 3 1/2 year concentration-camp period. "According to the American Jewish Yearbook, the Jewish population of Europe was about 9.5 million in 1933. In 1950, the Jewish population of Europe was about 3.5 million." (http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?ModuleId=10005687) According to http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/h-statistics.htm, about "63%" of European Jews were killed during the Holocaust, very close to 66.6% or 2/3 of the Jewish population. Zechariah 13:1,8: "In that day a fountain shall be open to the House of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem [JEWS] for purging and cleansing...Throughout the land, TWO-THIRDS SHALL PERISH, SHALL DIE, AND ONE-THIRD OF IT SHALL SURVIVE." "That day" is referring to the second 3 1/2 years of the 7-year "Great Tribulation,"discussed in Zechariah 12-14, which is followed by God "and all the saints" coming to dwell on Earth (Zec. 14:5). (compare with Daniel 2, Ezekiel 38)

Dec. 1941-May 1945: 3 1/2 years during which the concentration camps for the Jews were in full effect

Revelaton 12:1And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars [i.e. the twelve tribes of the Jewish people, who "brought forth" the "man child" Jesus: Genesis 37:9: And he [Joseph the Jew] dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me]....5And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron [Jesus: Revelation 19:15: And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.16And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS]; and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne. 6And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days [i.e. 1260 days, or 3 1/2 years].... 13And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.14And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time [1+2+1/2=3 1/2 "times," i.e. 3 1/2 years], from the face of the serpent.15And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. 16And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.

hitler Hitler Swastika, the bent cross: Hitler is a corrupted Christ

How Hitler was like the Antichrist:

-the Antichrist, to whom Satan "the dragon" gives power for 42 months [i.e. 3 1/2 years] (Rev. 13:4-6) like Hitler will "persecute" the Jews for 3 1/2 years especially (Revelation 12:6,14)

-as the Antichrist "will invade lands [including Egypt in North Africa (in Daniel 11:5, the "king of the south" mentioned in 11:40 refers to King Ptolemy of Egypt)] sweeping through them like a flood" (Daniel 11:40), so did Hitler invade most of Europe and even North Africa

-as the Antichrist "will exalt and magnify himself above every god, and will speak awful things about the God of gods" (Dan. 11:36), so did Hitler

- http://www.cuttingedge.org/News/n1017.html

MOVIES/TELEVISION & MUSIC

-Television ("far-seeing"): type of the Anti-Christ's "false prophet"?

---Rev. 13:11-12: "And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns [notice the two antennae, shared by the 6-legged demon insects discussed in Part One, also reminiscent of the Pope's "two-horned mitre" and of the mitres of other antichrists] like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast [symbolized by Superman, Spider-Man, Batman, etc.), whose deadly wound was healed."

The Omnipresent (in most homes) Lord who can see farther than any human wasp wasp

pope Pope Ratzinger, false prophet cybele Cybele, the false Roman prophetess dagon Dagon, the Philistine god

zinger Zinger: giant two-horned wasp of "Donkey Kong"

-"STARS"

"How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer ["Shining One," like the Sun & Moon], morning STAR [like a "rock star" or "movie star"]! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High [God]." (Isaiah 14:12-14)

A. MOVIE/TV STARS

1. WALT DISNEY & his movies

Walt ("commander of the army," as God is called the "LORD of hosts") Dis-ney ("flute of Lucifer [Satan]")

Dis

Ney: figures prominently in Persian, Turkish, & West Asian music...played continuously for 4,500–5,000 years...forerunner of the modern flute...also applied to a curved Pan [the Greek goat god- i.e. demon] flute.

Little Mermaid penis, "Kiss the Girl"; Aladdin: "take off your clothes"; Pocahontas: "spirit from the abyss" (i.e. Satan & his demons: see Rev. 9, especially 9:11); Lion King: "sex"; Mickey Mouse & Michael Eisner the head of Disney are homosexuals
Disney & Satanism

Racist Disney Characters: Satan's means of encouraging racism in kids: against Arabs, African-Americans, Asians, Indians, etc.

Clip from "Fantasia": Night on Bald Mountain: where evil spirits gather to worship Satan Night on Bald Mountain: where evil spirits gather to worship Satan, followed by the conclusion- Schubert's "Ave Maria" (the "Hail Mary" prayer in Latin; I show above in my section on Rome the "whore of Babylon" that Catholicism is not Christianity & that the Catholic paganized "Queen of Heaven" Mary is a substitute for Jesus)

Fantasia: list of classical music played in the film=list of composers controlled by Satan?: Beethoven, Bach???, Schubert, Tschaikovsky & his "Nutcracker Suite" which is very popular during the pagan Christmas holiday

Bach's Toccata & Fugue (from St. John's Passion [of Christ]!!!): associated with Dracula, Phantom of the Opera, Fantasia Opening movement, etc.!

Disney Movies: Satan's means of encouraging sin by substituting other heroes for Jesus & thereby diverting people from Jesus, & by other ways such as promoting cross-dressing & homosexuality through characters like Aladdin's "Genie"

heroes Satan's many imitations of Jesus "the Prince of Peace" (Isaiah 9:7) & "the bridegroom" (Matt. 22, 25; Psalm 19:4-5): Princes of Snow White & Sleeping Beauty bring the dead bride back to life, Prince Charming of Cinderella transforms the ugly girl into a beautiful princess, Prince Eric ("eternal ruler") of The Little Mermaid

Disney movie villains, the adversaries of Satan's Jesus-imitating heroes, who people (including me as a child) highly adore ("worship") as much as they worship the heroes: the many faces of Satan, including the arrogant Gaston of "Beauty & the Beast" & Hades (the Greek "god" [demon] of the underworld, translated as Hell in the Bible) of "Hercules"

genie Satan: "I will resemble the most High" (Is. 14:14): Genie: Satan is a genie in the Koran, "genie" translates "daimonion" ("demon," the thing that directed Socrates) in the Persian Bible, genie grants wishes like Satan Claws & God who says "If you remain in me, & my word [the Bible] remains in you, ASK WHATEVER YOU WISH & IT WILL BE GRANTED TO YOU" (John 15:7)

robin Robin: the voice of Genie in "Aladdin" aladdin features Bowie's #1 single "The Jean Genie," inspired by demon-possessed Iggy Pop

aladdin jafar Jafar's parrot is named after the evil "Iago" of Shakespeare's Othello fantasia Video Clip (begin at 1:00): compare with Harry Potter the Sorceror
lionking Simba ("Lion") resembles Jesus " the Lion of Judah" (Rev. 5:5) & Scar resembles his arch-enemy Satan: "your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour" (1 Peter 5:8)

Walt Disney logo has the numbers 666 in the beginning ("W"), middle, ("i"'s dot), & end ("y")

2. Actors who have played God: Jim Carrey, Alanis Morrissette, Morgan Freeman, Cher, George Burns

Actors who have played Satan: George Burns (who plays God in the same movie!), Tim Curry, Bill Cosby, Walter Huston, Robert de Niro, Al Pacino, Keanu Reeves (played the son of Satan), Jack Nicholson, Viggo Mortensen, Elizabeth Hurley, Harvey Keitel, Gabriel Byrne, Trey Parker of the TV show South Park (http://www.listology.com/content_show.cfm/content_id.15389/Movies)

Played types of the Antichrist: Val Kilmer (Batman, Jim Morrison), Brad Pitt (Achilles), Jeremy Irons (Scar of "The Lion King"), Robin Williams (Genie of "Aladdin")

-A. JACK (related to John ["God is gracious"] & Jacob ["he who supplants," as Jacob sought to supplant Esau & as Satan sought to supplant God according to Isaiah 14!]) NICHOLSON ("son of Nicholas ["to conquer people"]," and Santa a.k.a. Satan Claws is also known as St. Nicholas!)

(from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Nicholson)

-Jack: Jack-in-the-box is also known as "the boxed devil," the knave of the three royal face cards in a card deck (counterfeit Holy Trinity), Jack-the-Ripper, name of character played by Robin Williams, the name of Leonardo DiCaprio in the movie Titanic, Jack Daniel's whiskey, the idle children's game "Jacks," to steal, "jacking" was a sexually charged dance popular in the 1980s, "jackass" is the name of a donkey & an obscene show on MTV, another name for the "laughing Kookaburra" which laughs like The Joker played by Jack Nicholson does!

-the Antichrist gains his power from the dragon Satan, & one way to tell that someone is possessed by a demon is if they are insane according to John 10:20 ("He has a demon & is insane": ex. Hamlet, Don Quixote, Norman Bates of Psycho, Nietzsche, Marlon Brando). Nicholson played many insane characters in the films Batman, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Shining, As Good As It Gets,

-like Jesus who has no human father ascribed to him, "Nicholson has stated he does not know who his father is, saying "Only Ethel and June knew and they never told anybody." "

-Nicholson was raised in his mother's Catholic religion.

-In his adult personal life, Nicholson has been notorious for his inability to "settle down", with a place on Maxim's "Top 10 Living Legends of Sex." He has allegedly had sex with 2,000 women.[17] He has six children by five different women

-Nicholson lived next door to Marlon Brando for a number of years on Mulholland Drive in Beverly Hills. Warren Beatty also lived nearby, earning the road the nickname "Bad Boy Drive".

During a road rage incident in 1994, he allegedly smashed another driver's car window with a golf club.[18]

-Nicholson is a fan of the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Lakers. His attendance at Lakers games is legendary, he is a season ticket holder since 1970 and has held courtside season tickets for the past 25 years at both The Forum and the Staples Center. In a few instances, Nicholson has engaged in arguments with game officials and opposing players, and has even walked onto the court.[20] His ardent refusal to miss a Lakers home game

-Nicholson is an avid art collector

-B. MARLON ("little hawk" or "falcoln," one of the "unclean animals" which symbolize demons of Leviticus 11) BRANDO ("burning torch")

(the following info is from Wikipedia:)

-He plays Napoleon, the God-father, Jor-El the godlike (one of God's titles is "El Shaddai") father of Superman, Kurtz of Apocalypse Now based on Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness, Don Juan (hero of Mozart's Don Giovanni), Julius Caesar worshipper Mark Antony of the Second TRIumvirate which was Satan's counterfeit of the Holy Trinity, the main character in The Wild One, & the bestial Stanley Kowalski of A Streetcar Named Desire.

-named the fourth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute.

-promoted the success of the "Black Panthers," a violent Marxist organization

-"director Francis Ford Coppola asked him to stay an extra hour so that he could shoot a close up of Brando saying, "The horror, the horror." Brando agreed for an extra $75,000."

-"He also earned a "bad boy" reputation for his public outbursts and antics. In June 1973, Brando broke paparazzo Ron Galella's jaw..earned a reputation for being difficult on the set, often unwilling or unable to memorize his lines and less interested in taking direction than in confronting the film director with odd and childish demands."

-had a son named Christ-ian, like God the Father's son's title is Christ

-" it was suggested that Brando had suffered from senile dementia in his final years. [compare with Nietzsche]" So will the Antichrist be possessed by Satan: "he has a demon & is insane." (John 10:20)

-"I, too, have had homosexual experiences and I am not ashamed." GOD'S MESSAGE TO HOMOSEXUALS: "Do not be deceived...homosexuals ["those who lie outstretched with men"]...will not inherit the kingdom of God." (1 Corinthians 6:9-10)

-C. Cher ("Dear one")

-The Antichrist "will exalt & magnify himself above every God" (Dan. 11:36): Cher plays God in 2002 on Will & Grace

-The Antichrist "king of the north" will "invade many lands...like a flood [symbolizes destruction]" (Dan. 11:40): Her song "Believe" [not in Christ] reached #1 in 23 countries around the world!

-"The person ("anthropos") of sin [the Antichrist]...the one who opposes & exalts himself above all called God" (2 Thess. 2:3): Cher leads very many to tattoo themselves, be lesbian, & cross-dress, actions which are abominations to God because they show contempt for His order of the world

-"The number of the beast...is 666" (Rev. 13:18) & the false prophet [Oprah] "causeth the earth & them which dwell therein to worship the first beast [the Antichrist]" (Rev. 13:12): ...Believe Cher 666 Tina Turner..., Everything Las Vegas Issue # 666... Turner will join Cher on "The Oprah Winfrey Show," which will be shot at a yet to be announced Caesar's [type of Antichrist] venue. ["Caesar's Palace," "the Temple of God in which [the Antichrist] will sit down as God"! (2 Thess. 2:4)]

anubis cher "Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD." Leviticus 19:28 (apparently her tattoo of the ankh shows she is possessed by one of those Egyptian god demons)

lesbian Romans 1:26-27: "For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature."

drag cher "A woman shall not wear a man’s apparel, nor shall a man put on a woman’s garment; for whoever does such things is abhorrent to the LORD your God." (Deuteronomy 22:5)

CHER

Keeping in mind that God helps us discover what works have been done by demons by linking demonic works or symbols together (ex. the Three High Renaissance Giants with the counterfeit saviors Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Batman with unclean bats), if we look up "Dark Lady" (the demon worshipped by Shakespeare who appears in the last half of his "Sonnets") in Wikipedia, we come across the famous song "Dark Lady" by Cher, which has the following chorus which reveals even more clearly that the "Dark Lady" is a demon/witch:

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/c/cher/dark+lady_20029728.html:

Dark lady laughed and danced
And lit the candles one by one
Danced to her gypsy music
Till her brew was done
Dark lady played black magic
Till the clock struck on the twelve
She told me more about me
Than I knew myself.

This resemblance is no coincidence, for I have revealed in my section on Cher that she too is a type of the Antichrist!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cher#Tattoos

starring in a string of hit films[4] including The [3] Witches of Eastwick, Silkwood, Mask [about a deformed being]and Moonstruck, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Cher has been imitated by drag queens across the world for decades. Cher's performance as a lesbian in the film Silkwood as well as her transition to dance music and social activism in recent years has further contributed to her iconic popularity within the gay community. The NBC sitcom Will & Grace acknowledged her status by making her the idol of gay character Jack McFarland. Cher guest-starred as herself twice on the sitcom, in 2000 and 2002. In 2000 Cher made a cameo on the show, in which Jack believed her to be a drag queen, and said he could "do" a better Cher himself. In 2002 she played God in Jack's imagined version of Heaven...In October 2005 the Bravo program Great Things About Being... declared Cher "the number one greatest thing about being gay."

BUT "A woman shall not wear a man’s apparel, nor shall a man put on a woman’s garment; for whoever does such things is abhorrent to the LORD your God." (Deuteronomy 22:5)

"And all that dwell upon the Earth shall worship him [the Antichrist], whose names were not written in the book of life." (Revelation 13:8) "Cher has a very large and devoted fan base that has transcended generations. Their devotion is evidenced through the biennial Cher Convention that began in Chicago in 2000 when her song "Believe" reached number one." Excerpt from "Believe," Satan's replacement for believing & thereby continuously calling upon God:

So sad that you're leaving
Takes time to believe it
But after all is said and done
You're going to be the lonely one, Ohh Oh

[CHORUS:]
Do you believe in life after love?...

The song reached #1 in 23 countries around the world...The album was a critical and commercial success, reaching the top spot in nearly every country where it was release...Cher is also the only female artist to have solo Top 10 hits in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. On the U.K. Singles Chart, "Believe" claimed the number one slot for seven consecutive weeks, and also became the biggest-selling single ever by a female artist in United Kingdom. It sold more than 1 million copies in both the United Kingdom and Germany. "Believe" is the third most successful song released by a solo female musician worldwide,[41] the biggest selling single ever for Warner Bros. Records and the biggest selling dance song ever, having sold over 10 million copies worldwide.

The Antichrist will draw people to worship him by looking very attractive. Cher's youthful-looking appearance has long been the subject of intense scrutiny, both by the public and the tabloid press. In the late 1990s, the National Enquirer published a series of photographs of Cher taken over a 20-year period, and had a doctor point out various surgical procedures done to her face during the time. The plastic surgeon pointed out evidence of surgical implants and other surgeries, including collagen applied to enhance her lips, facelifts to reduce wrinkles, skin peels to provide "younger"-looking skin, an all over body lift. Cher has not confirmed any of these diagnoses, except to once famously respond to one interviewer, "all I'll say about that is that getting older really sucks."

"Satan transforms himself into an angel of light" (2 Corinthians 11:14) by causing people he possesses to do good works, though not out of a clean heart but simply to deceive: "Cher has been involved with many humanitarian groups and charity efforts over the years. After appearing in the movie Mask, she served as National Chairperson and Honorary Spokesperson of the Children’s Craniofacial Association. Over the years while touring, she frequently donated concert tickets to families and non-profit groups for children and youth with facial deformities. Such donations were alluded to in an episode of the TV series X-Files entitled The Post Modern Prometheus...In 1993 Cher participated in a humanitarian effort to Armenia (where her father was born), bringing much needed food and medical supplies.[61] In 1998 she co-hosted the annual Amfar AIDS Benefit at the Cannes Film Festival with Elizabeth Taylor. She is also the namesake of the Cher Charitable Foundation, which donates funds to various charities and causes close to her heart." (Wikipedia)

"Cher became famous for her many tattoos, long before they were fashionable among women in Hollywood. Among them were a large butterfly and floral design on her buttocks, later imitated by androgynous Dead or Alive singer Pete Burns; a flowing necklace on her left upper arm with three charms hanging on it an Egyptian ankh [demonic counterfeit of the cross], a cross and a heart, a kanji on her right shoulder (Chinese 'li'; Japanese 'chikara'; ?, meaning 'power'); a small cluster of Art Deco crystals on her inner right arm; a black orchid design just above the crease of her right thigh; and a chrysanthemum [reminiscent of Chryses the priest mentioned on the first page of the demon-possessed Homer's Iliad who like Christ seeks to pay the ransom for his child Chryseis who is made in his image to deliver her from slavery] on her left ankle.[62]"(Wikipedia)

BUT "Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD." Leviticus 19:28

"In her early career Cher was a fashion trend-setter, popularizing long straight hair, bell-bottoms and an exposed midriff. She is noted by fashion designers and television historians as being the first female to ever expose her bellybutton on television.[citation needed] She stepped that up a notch in 1989 when she boarded a U.S. Navy ship in thong and fishnets for a music video, causing it to be one of the first by a mainstream pop artist to be banned by MTV (after the video was banned the video grew to mass popularity, forcing MTV to play the video after hours). Through her television shows she inspired women and pushed the censors with her revealing outfits and creative ensembles, frequently designed by Bob Mackie. She has also inspired a generation of younger singer/actresses who have noted her as being a major influence on them." (Wikipedia)

-D. Oprah Winfrey (Orpah who secretly cheers "Win, Frey [the Norse demon]!" in the battle with God)

-originally named "Orpah" (compare "Santa"/"Satan"), the woman who returns to Moab to worship the "god" [i.e. demon] Chemosh "the Destroyer" (In the Bible in Ruth Ch.1!), while her sister Ruth was made by God to symbolize any Gentile saved by Jesus (symbolized by Boaz, the "redeemer" from Bethlehem in the line of David)

-"the number of the beast [both the Antichrist & the false prophet] is 666" (Rev. 13:18) Oprah 666

-Oprah doesn't worship Christ: Oprah (dressed in black & red) teaches tens-of-millions on T.V. that Christ "can't possibly be the only way to God"; appear to be sounds of the rattleSNAKE Satan & demonic voices in background: DO NOT BE DECEIVED BY HER: YOU CANNOT EVEN HAVE THE LOVE OF GOD & OF EVERY MAN WHICH JESUS HAD (JUST BECAUSE YOU HELP PEOPLE LIKE CHER DID DOES NOT MEAN YOU HAVE THIS LOVE) UNLESS YOU BELIEVE IN HIM, FOR THAT LOVE IS "FRUIT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT" (Galatians 5:22), & YOU NEED TO BELIEVE IN JESUS IN ORDER TO PARTAKE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT (John 7:37-38)

-the false prophet "causeth the earth & them which dwell therein to worship the first beast [the Antichrist: Cher & Turner, Obama,...]" (Rev. 13:12)

---appeared more times on TIME's "100 most influential people of the year" list than anyone else! (6 times through 2008)

oprah The false prophet "had two horns like a [white] lamb, and he spake as a dragon (i.e. Satan, who opposes Christ)"

3. Movie heroes & villains:

-A. Famous Movie Villains: Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers (with face of William Shatner of "Star Trek"), The Joker (Jack Nicholson), Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson), Dracula, Reagan MacNeil of The Exorcist

-B. Darth Vader (created by George Lucas) The Antichrist will "resemble the Most High" Jesus (ex. by being born of a virgin like Vader & being lord), will first appear peaceful but later will manifest his darkness

darth Dark Lord of the Sith Toys distract children from Christ! They are antichrists!

DARTH VADER, the "Dark Lord of the Sith"

Revelation 13: The movie "Star Wars" Movies -- Darth Vader as a type of Antichrist, the Book of Revelation's evil dictator -- The Biblical prophecy theme of "Star Wars"

-C. Superman (Character created by antichrist Nietzsche), Spider-Man, Batman The Antichrist will "resemble the Most High" Jesus by having supernatural powers, coming from another world to save our world, having an arch-enemy like Satan, etc., causing people to forget that only Jesus can save you

super Jesus will come again! spider bat Jesus will reign forever! tmnt

spider Spider-Man demon poisons you: "They hatch adders’ (snakes: symbols of Satan) eggs and weave the spider’s web...Their works are works of iniquity" (Isaiah 59:5-6)

bat Batman demon bites you turtle Demon-possessed turtle alone survives inferno while 150 animals around it perish

SUPERMAN, SPIDER-MAN, BATMAN

The Antichrist will "resemble the Most High" Jesus by having supernatural powers, coming from another world to save our world, having an arch-enemy like Satan, etc., causing people to forget that only Jesus can save you

Superman as Christ-Figure: The American Pop Culture Movie Messiah

D. HARRY ("home ruler" [Satan is "the god of this world"], "to disturb") POTTER ("to busy oneself with trifles [like those books!]," "to disturb")

harry harry "But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and SORCERORS (or "those who drug/bewitch people," "those who use drugs/potions"), and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. (Revelation 21:8)

-Harry Potter: Christ Figure?: as with Odysseus, Socrates, Julius Caesar, Prince Hamlet, Elvis, etc., outstanding similarities

-Danger of Harry Potter Potter: Satanic Godsend: especially because of all the witchcraft

-Harry Rapper Harry-O-Devil, Old Harry (the Devil), Prince Harry of Wales who some suspect is the Antichrist though perhaps he is just a type, President Harry Truman (as many other presidents are types of the Antichrist) who was the only president to order the dropping of atomic bombs; diminutive of Henry: the name of many Germanic rulers & eight English kings including Henry VIII who beheaded many of his wives, the ruler (teacher) of my music class at college who told me he was not a Christian to my great surprise since he for weeks helped me compose my sophomore essay on the Bible before I discovered the truth, the name of someone described to me as domineering without my telling him the meaning of "Henry," and the name of an arrogant student I knew at college; related to "Hal," the name given to the evil computer of the film 2001: A Space Odyssey which kills people; related to "Harrison," the name given to the Hindu Beatle George Harrison & to the movie star Harrison Ford whom people all over the world worship

-Potter: Satanic greedy antagonist of "It's a Wonderful Life" movie

B. MUSIC STARS: Elvis, The Beatles, The Doors, Led Zeppelin

1. ELVIS ("God Force") ARON ("Teacher"/Aaron the priest) PRESLEY ("priest")

Elvis-Jesus Synchronicities: eeries similarities in their lives will blow you away (Elvis claims to be Christ: "If anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the Christ,' or 'Here,' believe it not. For there will arise false Messiahs & false prophets, and will give great signs & wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect. Behold, I have foretold it to you." [Matt. 24: 23-25])

Video: Elvis possessed by demon[s]: Elvis admits to being guided by voices as Socrates & Joan of Arc did, wanted to be God like Satan does (Isaiah 14), tried to get people to kill others, had violent temper, performs miracles like stopping the rain from falling in one place

-see how seductive antichrist Satan is (remember how seductive he was towards Eve in the Garden of Eden): Elvis: "Return to Sender" video, "Are you lonesome tonight", "You're the Devil in Disguise"!

elvis Jesus is King elvis Rev. 13:3: Antichrist survives fatal wound & appears to be resurrected

2. THE BEATLES (the Beetles)

Ezekiel 1 locust beetle

-they bear very striking resemblances to the four "living creatures"/"animals"/angels with wheels before God's throne in heaven who are mentioned in Ezekiel 1 & 10 and Revelation 4; and to the "four angels" released from "the great Euphrates" of Revelation 9 to lead the army of 200 million locust demons governed by Satan (called "Abaddon" & "Apollyon" in Rev. 9:11) which kills a third of the Earth's people, who are presumably identical to the "four horsemen" of Rev. 6 who bring destruction upon the whole Earth during the Great Tribulation. Rev. 6, which has the four living creatures introduce each of the four horsemen, suggest that the four horsemen are imitations of the four creatures, so it would be fitting for symbols of the four horsemen to resemble the four creatures as well. Here are the many resemblances:

---there are several theories about the origin of the name "Liverpool," England, where the Beatles were "released from." One such theory is that it comes from the Welsh word Llyvrpwl which means ‘pool of confluence’, or a meeting or flowing of two or more streams. The Euphrates river was one of two major streams in Babylon along with the Tigris River. Also, as "Babylon the great" is the name given in Revelation 18 to the city which will be the center of world trade, so is Liverpool: Being an important centre of trade and commerce it has undergone an extensive redevelopement in recent years to coincide with Liverpool's status as European Capital of Culture 2008. Liverpool even has a very tall building, just as ancient Babylon was home to the Tower of Babel.

---the Beatles sold 200 million records by the year 1966, which is associated with "the number of the beast...666," and thus equipped an army of people to turn others away from Christ & thereby lead those people to eternal destruction. I was not a Christian while I was very devoted to the Beatles during my high school years: I owned several of their albums & know their songs well.

---as the 4 angels of Rev. 9 are governed by Satan, so are the Beatles. As "the whole world lies in the power of the Wicked One [Satan]" (1 John 5:19), so have the Beatles sold over a billion records and are considered the most popular rock band in history. The Beatles strangest & longest song is "Revolution #9," which sounds demonic, is identical to "Revelation 9," if you change 2 letters. Played backwards (as with Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven," discussed below), it says "Satan look at me" and "let us out" [another version] [said by the demons in the Beatles?] Charles Manson found hidden messages in their songs like "Helter Skelter" which appear to have prompted him to execute those gruesome murders. Beetles have six legs just as the other insects which symbolize demons do. Evil Beatles. George Harrison was a Hindu throughout his life, and his song "My Sweet Lord" was addressed to the Hindu god [i.e. demon] Crishna instead of Christ. Lennon was not a Christian: he said that Christianity might soon vanish the same time he said that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus; in his song "Imagine," he said "imagine there's no heaven...imagine no religion"!!! Many of their songs (ex. on Abbey Road: "Polythene Pam," "Maxwell's Silver Hammer," "Octopus' Garden") are absolute nonsense designed by Satan to have you waste your time instead of devote yourself to God, as happened to me in high school.

---like the Antichrist who will be possessed by Satan but will appear like a man of peace at first and thus will deceive the whole world as Satan does (Rev. 12:9), and like the types of the Antichrist Lincoln & John F. Kennedy, John Lennon (which name combines JFK's & Lincoln's names!) who advocates peace was assassinated by a three-named person (Mark David Chapman), and his assassination too was thought to be a conspiracy; Paul McCartney was rumored to be dead in 1966 and came back to life based on the evil Revolution #9 song, just as the Antichrist in Rev. 13:3 recovers from a fatal head wound; George Harrison was stabbed in 1999 (which contains 666, the number of the Antichrist, upside down) at 3:30 pm by a 33-year old man when he was 56 years-old (5+6=11, a Satanic Masonic number), just as the #33 is associated with Satan who imitates Christ & Christ.

---as the locusts of Rev. 9 have "breastplates of iron" & "hair like women's hair" (Rev. 9:8-9), so did the Beatles (locust beetles) hold electric guitars which had iron strings against their breasts & have long hair. Marilyn Manson made this connection as well, and the rest of the Table of Contents shows that demon-possessed people reveal the demonic nature of other demon-possessed people.

---George Harrison the Third Beatle was connected with the name "Dark Horse" and with famine relief, as the third of the four horses is black and brings famine upon the world during the Tribulation. Other connections between the Beatles, the 4 horsemen, & the 4 beasts (this author correctly suspects that the Beatles are angels in disguise, but he should have considered them angels of darkness instead of angels of light Satan "transforms himself into" [2 Cor. 11:14])

horsemen The 4 BeatlesThe 3rd Beatle manson Charles Manson

3. JIM MORRISON "the Lizard King," LEAD-SINGER OF THE DOORS

lizard Two-horned lizard jim "And all the world wondered after the beast. And they worshipped the dragon [SATAN] which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast" (Rev. 13:3-4)

Video: Morrison possessed by devil[s]: Morrison admits "the souls of the ghost of the dead Indians...just leaped into my soul", "I saw Satan," the seductive songs he sang were ones he just heard in his head (what happened with Shakespeare too?): "I was just taking notes at a fantastic rock concert that was going on inside my head"; you can actually hear different demonic voices coming out of him during one of his performances recorded here

Morrison, with his "Greek God" beauty, his fiery passion and dark mysterious persona, has been considered a Dionysos incarnate...There was even a "First Church of the Doors" at one time...It seems to me that Morrison let himself be completely possessed by Dionysos [type of the Antichrist I discuss earlier in Part Three]... his favorite philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche

Squamata (scaled reptiles) is the largest recent order of reptiles, including lizards and snakes [symbols of Satan "that ancient serpent" (Rev. 12:9).

The Lost Blogs: From Jesus to Jim Morrison lostblogs Lincoln on cover!

4. LED ZEPPELIN, LED BY ROBERT PLANT

"Stairway to Heaven" backwards: "Oh here's to my sweet Satan...the one...whose power is Satan? He'll give those with him 666"; "Stairway to Heaven" backwards: arguments that this is not coincidence; tons of words with clear messages

NEW YORK CITY IS A COUNTERFEIT NEW JERUSALEM
-Of all the cities in the United States, New York City has the largest population, attracts the largest number of immigrants, and is so diverse that no racial or ethnic group can claim a majority because The New Jerusalem has will have a very large population composed of people from all over the world!!! Here is a description of the city as it is now, in Heaven:
“After these things I saw, and behold, a great crowd, which no one was able to number, out of every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; and crying with a loud voice, saying, ‘Salvation to Him who sits on the throne of our God, and to the Lamb [Jesus]!’…These are they who come out of the Great Tribulation, and they washed their robes, and their robes white by the blood of the Lamb. Because of this are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in His temple; and He who sits on the throne shall tabernacle over them.” (Revelation 7:9-10,14-15)

It has the greatest urban mass-transit system because in the New Jerusalem, it will be very easy to travel anywhere! It has the biggest school system, because everyone will be educated by God in the New Jerusalem! It has the most poor people of all cities in the U.S. because the New Jerusalem will be filled with people who are now materially poor! For Jesus says “Everyone of you who does not take leave of all he possesses cannot be my disciple.” (Luke 14:33) ALL YOU WHO ARE POOR NOW WILL BE INFINITELY RICH IN THE NEW JERUSALEM IF YOU WORSHIP THE TRINITY!!! Its skyline has many of the world’s most famous skyscrapers, for The New Jerusalem will be famed throughout the world, and The Trinity will dwell there.

-THE STATUE OF LIBERTY AND THE COLOSSUS OF RHODES

colossus
Perhaps Jesus will be this much larger than humans who dwell with Him in the New Jerusalem, as I argue in my section on Achilles of Homer’s Iliad, a type of the Antichrist and gigantic man, based, for instance, on the fact that all Christians are promised that they will “see God” (Matthew 5:8) and “see His face.” (Revelation 22:4) This is presumably a continuous seeing, for God is supposed to be the source of all happiness, but it is hard to conceive how He can be continually seen unless He is much larger than all humans.

Like The Colossus of Rhodes, the Statue has a robe and a crown with seven spokes, and is between 100 & 150 feet tall! Here are some other resemblances:

“The general appearance of the statue’s head approximates the Greek SUN GOD Apollo (linked with Satan in Revelation 9:11!) or Helios as preserved on an ancient marble tablet (today in the Archaeological Museum of Corinth, Corinth, Greece) - Apollo was represented as a solar deity, dressed in a similar robe and having on its head a "radiate crown" with the seven spiked rays of the Helios-Apollo's sun rays, like the Statue's nimbus or halo. The Colossus of Rhodes was a colossus of the Greek god Helios, erected on the Greek island of Rhodes by Chares of Lindos between 292 and 280 BC. It is considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.”

“Not only was the Colossus of Rhodes the most famous statue of ancient times, it was also the inspiration to French sculptor Auguste Bartholdi, best known by his most noted work: The Statue of Liberty, the most famous statue of modern times. The shape of the Statue of Liberty is almost identical to that of the Colossus of Rhodes,
a person on a pedestal holding up a torch with the right arm…The Statue of Liberty and the Colossus of Rhodes were both symbols of freedom to their respective countries.”

It was destroyed and resurrected as the Statue of Liberty to show that JESUS DIED BUT ROSE AGAIN FROM THE DEAD!!!!!!

The interior of the pedestal contains a bronze plaque inscribed with the poem "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus. It has never been engraved on the exterior of the pedestal, despite such depictions in editorial cartoons.
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flameIs the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
[THIS IS A COUNTERFEIT JESUS SPEAKING!!!!!!!!!]
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

“I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will have the light of life…If my Word abides in you, you are truly my disciples; and you will know the truth and the truth shall set you FREE…Everyone who sins is a SLAVE to sin.” (John 8:12,31-32,34)

And it came to pass at his reclining in the house, that behold, many tax gatherers and sinners having come were reclining with Jesus and his disciples. And having seen it the Pharisees said to His disciples, ‘Why with the tax-gatherers and sinners does your teacher eat?’ But Jesus having heard He said to them, ‘They who are strong have no need of a physician, but they who are ill. But go and learn what this means: Mercy I desire, and not sacrifice; for I came not to call righteous men, but sinners to repentance. (Matt. 9:10-13)

Come to me, all you that labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest! Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am meek and lowly in heart; and you shall find rest to your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light! (Matt. 11:28)

Hundreds of other Statues of Liberty have been erected worldwide, because JESUS IS EVERYWHERE, EVEN RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE READING THIS. AS WITH THE TWIN TOWERS, EVERYWHERE THEY ARE IS APPARENTLY A COUNTERFEIT OF THE NEW JERUSALEM! For instance, there are at least two in Paris, including in the Jardin du Luxembourg. THIS JARDIN is renowned for its calming effect, for so will the New Jerusalem be!

Websites which link the Statue of Liberty with Satan and his Freemasonry religion: http://www.freemasonrywatch.org/statue_of_liberty.html, http://www.angelfire.com/ok5/estherstar/EVE.html. The Statue of Liberty is Satan's substitute for the true "light of the world," just as Santa "the little Chrit child" is Satan's substitute for Christ.

THE TWIN TOWERS

(Please consider this section in conjunction with the sections on Notre Dame, whose founder Maurice de Sully, a type of the Antichrist, died on 9/11/1196; the section on Nostradamus, who apparently predicted the 9/11 attacks; and with the sections on the other buildings which represent Christ, including the Statue of Liberty & Colossus of Rhodes, the Pyramids of Giza, etc.)

When times are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider: God has made the one as well as the other. (Ecclesiastes 7:14)

IF A TRUMPET IS BLOWN IN A CITY, WILL NOT THE PEOPLE BE AFRAID? IF THERE IS CALAMITY IN A CITY, WILL NOT THE LORD HAVE DONE IT?(Amos 3:6)

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom. (Psalm 111:10)

THE TWIN TOWERS WHICH WERE DESTROYED ON 9/11 SYMBOLIZE GOD THE FATHER AND GOD THE SON, WHO BECAUSE THEY HAVE THE SAME DIVINE NATURE ARE DEPICTED AS HAVING ABOUT THE SAME HEIGHT, BEING ASSAULTED BY THE SATANIC RELIGION OF ISLAM.

The following passages in the Bible show that "every Scripture is inspired of God" (2 Timothy 3:16), for over ten different books of the Bible, written hundreds of years ago, show a foreknowledge of the collapse of the Twin Towers on 9/11, and reveal Twin Tower #2 to be a symbol of Jesus crucified:

Psalm 61:2-3: From the ends of the earth I call to you [God],
I call as my heart grows faint;
lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
For you have been my refuge,
a strong tower against the foe. [You must turn to God as your refuge if you wish to gain eternal life, friend!]

He is the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore. (2 Sam. 22:51)
And thou [Jesus, the king of Micah 5 unto whom the kingship of David will return (Amos 9:11)], O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem. (Micah 4:8)
The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe. (Proverbs 18:10)

The following 3 sets of passages suggest that the Twin Towers the centers of greed are symbols of the Anti-Christ who will be possessed by Satan, who says "I will resemble the Most High [God]." (Isaiah 14:14), rather than simply of Christ and God the Father, as I had previously thought (Satan does deceive the whole world, after all!):

-Now it will come about that in the last days [Jesus' 2nd Coming will very likely be within the next few years] the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains, and will be raised above the hills...the LORD of hosts will have a day of reckoning against everyone who is proud and lofty…that he may be abased. And it will be against all the cedars of Lebanon that are lofty and lifted up…against every high tower. (Isaiah 2:2,12-15)

- Parallels Between the Two Witnesses of Revelation 11, and the Twin Towers that Fell

-Only the first 9 verses of the 11th chapter of Genesis describe the building of and God's destruction of the Tower of Babylon. Babylon is depicted as the center of world trade in Revelation 18! Is the commercial Babylon of Rev. 18 New York City, while that of Rev. 17 is Rome? Is New York City a duplicate of Ancient Rome? Revelation 18 will not be completely fulfilled until the end of the Great Tribulation (the seven years before Jesus' 2nd Coming and following the Rapture) described throughout the Book of Revelation. Nevertheless, God showed on 9/11 that this chapter will be fulfilled, just as He showed at the Holocaust that Revelation 12 & Daniel 7-12 among other chapters will be fulfilled:

---Revelation 18: The fall of commercial Babylon:

1And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.

2And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

3For all nations [NYC was center of world trade] have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.

4And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

5For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

6Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.

7How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

8Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.

9And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,

10Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour [Twin Tower #2 collapsed after burning for about 56 minutes] is thy judgment come.

11[verses 11-20 transition to talk about traders & merchants] And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:

12The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,

13And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.

14And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all.

15The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,

16And saying, Alas, alas that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!

17For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,

18And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!

19And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

20Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.

-Ezekiel 31: 1And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness? 3Behold, the Assyrian [included the kingdom of Babylon, where the Tower of Babylon was built] was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs...5Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field (the Twin Towers, which are vertical & slim like trees, were exalted in height over all other buildings when they were built in the 1970s)...6All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs...10Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height; 11 [the first verse declaring the destruction of the "tower" of Assyria] I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one [symbol of Satan, who was apparently God's tool for destroying the Twin Towers] of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.

---Matthew 13:31: Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: 32Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof. [Compare with Ezekiel 31:6; thus, Ancient Assyria is a symbol of the "kingdom of heaven," the "body of Christ" (ithe name given to Christ & all Christians in 1 Corinthians 12). Daniel 7 too shows how the kingdoms of Babylon, Persia under Cyrus, Greece under Alexander the Great, & Rome under the Caesars are symbols of Jesus' kingdom of the heavens which will have dominion over all the Earth. THESE TWO PASSAGES SHOW THAT TWIN TOWER #2 WHICH COLLAPSED ON 9/11 IS A COUNTERFEIT SYMBOL OF THE BODY OF CHRIST WHICH WAS CRUCIFIED.]

"In the beginning was the Word [Jesus], and the Word was with God [the Father & the Holy Spirit], and the Word was God [the Son]...And the Word became flesh, and tabernacled among us." (John 1:1, 1:14) [The tabernacle building of Exodus 25-40 is a symbol of Jesus, just like Twin Tower #2 is.]

Amos 9:11: "In that day [foreshadows day of 9/11, the day when Jesus was resurrected, and the time of Jesus' 2nd Coming] will I raise up the tabernacle of David which is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and build it as in the days of old." [Amos 9:11 is the only verse of the many verses of Amos where Jesus' body is called a tabernacle building & where Jesus is very explicitly referred to.]

-Example where Jesus the seed of David is referred to as David in the Old Testament: Psalm 89: 20I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him...26He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.27Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.28My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.29His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

Hebrews 9:11-12: "11. But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; 12. Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us." [Hebrews 9:11 is the only or one of the very few verses in the hundreds of verses of Hebrews where Jesus' body is called a tabernacle building.]

According to http://bibleq.com/search?site=biblecc&client=default_frontend&proxystylesheet=custom4&filter=0&num=100&output=xml_no_dtd&btnG=Search&q=siloam, Siloam is mentioned only four places in the Bible, and Shiloh which is identical or almost identical to the Hebrew word for Siloam appears very few times in the Bible as well:

"he doth build it, and cover it, and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars, and the wall of the pool of Siloah, to the garden of the king, and unto the steps that are going down from the city of David. [who is a type of Christ the "king of kings", as I show in Part Two]" (Nehemiah 3:15)

“Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam [symbol of Twin Tower #2, which is a symbol of Jesus] fell and killed them: do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who lived in Jerusalem? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.”
- Jesus to the people (Luke 13:4-5)

John 9:11 [THIS NUMBER IS NOT COINCIDENTAL, FOR "SILOAM" APPEARS IN ONLY FOUR PLACES IN THE BIBLE!]: "A man named Jesus made clay and applied it to my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to the pool of Siloam and wash'; and having gone and washed I saw again." [The pool of Siloam is a symbol of Jesus who "washed us by His blood" (Revelation 1:5) & who enables us to see the truth because He is the "light of the world." (John 8:12) This interpretation is confirmed by the fact that water is a symbol of God, as I prove in Part One.]

John 9:7: "Wash in the pool of Siloam, which is interpreted, 'sent'."

John 9:3-4: "Jesus answered...'It behoves me to work the works of Him who sent me.' " The Latin Vulgate translates the word [Shiloh] as "he who is to be sent," in allusion to the Messiah. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Shilo)

"Siloam is an ancient Greek name derived from the more ancient Hebrew: Shiloah." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siloam)

"Siloam Tunnel (Tunnel of Shiloh)." (http://www.goisrael.com/Tourism_Eng/Tourist+Information/Jewish+Themes/Jewish_Sites/The+Siloam+Tunnel+jew.htm)

Genesis 49:10-12: The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh [Jesus the "king of kings" (Revelation 19)] come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes: His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk. [Jesus has an ass's colt when He comes to Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. He is described in Revelation 19 as washed in blood and with eyes of fire, when He returns with a sword in His mouth to destroy all His enemies after the Great Tribulation.]

Jeremiah 7:12: For go ye now unto My place which was in Shiloh, where I caused My name to dwell at the first. [The place is symbolic of Jesus, who says the Father is in Him.]

1 Samuel 3:21: And the LORD appeared again in Shiloh; for the LORD revealed Himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the LORD.

"Shiloh" is actually a composite of two Hebrew words: shai and loh or in English, "tribute" and "to him." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Shilo) [In Revelation 21 & Isaiah 60, tribute comes to God in the New Jerusalem from all the nations.]

Shiloh & Siloam sound remarkably like shalom, the Hebrew word for peace, & Jesus is called the "Prince of Peace." (Isaiah 9:7)

Revelation 9:11: And they [the locust-demons] had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon ("the Destroyer"). [Satan's face appeared on one of the Twin Towers on 9/11, because he apparently was God's tool for destroying the Twin Towers. http://www.directoryupdate.net/prophecy.html says more about the relation between Revelation 9 & 9/11]

-Apollyon appears to be Satan, since the "king" of the locust-demons is the star which fell from heaven (Revelation 9:1-3), and stars symbolize angels in the Book of Revelation, and Satan is said to have fallen from Heaven. (Isaiah 14:1, Revelation 12:1-9). Revelation 9:11 stands out from the other verses of Revelation 9 because only in that verse is Satan's name mentioned, and this is the only verse in the whole Bible in which the name Apollyon appears and in which those two names (Apollyon & Abaddon) of Satan appear! The following website convincingly shows the link between the Greek SUN god Apollo (a counterfeit of Jesus who is symbolized by the Sun) and Apollyon: Abaddon/Apollyon/Apollo

Genesis, last verse: "So Joseph died, being 110 years old." God made Joseph, a type of Christ, die at this age to symbolize that Twin Tower #2, which is 110 stories tall, is a type of the Antichrist as well.

The Twin Towers both had 110 stories, while 3 WTC which they crushed had 22 stories. Out of the 150 Psalms, only 2 mention “the LORD” (God the Father) talking to “the Lord” (God the Son): Psalm 2 & Psalm 110!!! And the most famous Psalm about Jesus’ death is Psalm 22, for it apparently contains more prophecies about Jesus’ death than any other Psalm! The numbers are given to those Psalms in order to show the relevance of their words to the Twin Towers and the remainder of the WTC’s Seven Towers!

-Psalm 2
The Messiah’s Triumph and Kingdom
1 Why do the nations rage,
         And the people plot a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves,
         And the rulers take counsel together,
         Against the LORD and against His Anointed, saying,
3 “Let us break Their bonds in pieces
         And cast away Their cords from us.”

4 He who sits in the heavens shall laugh;
         The Lord shall hold them in derision.
5 Then He shall speak to them in His wrath,
         And distress them in His deep displeasure:
6 “Yet I have set My King
         On My holy hill of Zion.”

7 “I will declare the decree:
         The LORD has said to Me,
         ‘You are My Son,
         Today I have begotten You.
8 Ask of Me, and I will give You
         The nations for Your inheritance,
         And the ends of the earth for Your possession.
9 You shall break[a] them with a rod of iron;
         You shall dash them to pieces like a potter’s vessel.’”

10 Now therefore, be wise, O kings;
         Be instructed, you judges of the earth.
11 Serve the LORD with fear,
         And rejoice with trembling.
12 Kiss the Son,[b] lest He[c] be angry,
         And you perish in the way,
         When His wrath is kindled but a little.

Blessed are all those who put their trust [or HAVE FAITH] in Him. [ONLY THOSE WHO TRUST JESUS GAIN ETERNAL LIFE! (John 3:16)]

-Psalm 110
–A Psalm of David.
1 The LORD [God the Father] said to my Lord [Jesus, God the Son],
         “Sit at My right hand,
         Till I make Your enemies Your footstool.”
2 The LORD shall send the rod of Your strength out of Zion.
         Rule in the midst of Your enemies!

3 Your people shall be volunteers
         In the day of Your power;
         In the beauties of holiness, from the womb of the morning,
         You have the dew of Your youth.
4 The LORD has sworn
         And will not relent,
         “You are a priest forever
         According to the order of Melchizedek.”

5 The Lord is at Your right hand;
         He shall execute kings in the day of His wrath.
6 He shall judge among the nations,
         He shall fill the places with dead bodies,
         He shall execute the heads of many countries.
7 He shall drink of the brook by the wayside;

Therefore He shall lift up the head.

Matt. 22:41-46

41 While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, 42 saying, “What do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?”
They said to Him, “ The Son of David.”
43 He said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call Him ‘Lord,’ saying:
       44 ‘ The LORD said to my Lord,
      “ Sit at My right hand,
       Till I make Your enemies Your footstool”’?[f] 45 If David then calls Him ‘Lord,’ how is He his Son?” 46 And no one was able to answer Him a word, nor from that day on did anyone dare question Him anymore. [Answer: the Christ is Jesus, who is descended from David through his mother (Luke 3) but who is David’s “lord” insofar as He is God!]

-Psalm 22
To the Chief Musician. Set to “The Deer of the Dawn.”[a] A Psalm of David.
1 My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?
Why are You so far from helping Me,

And from the words of My groaning?...

7 All those who see Me ridicule Me;
They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
8 “He trusted[b] in the LORD, let Him rescue Him;

Let Him deliver Him, since He delights in Him!”…

16 For dogs have surrounded Me;
         The congregation of the wicked has enclosed Me.
         THEY PIERCED[C] MY HANDS AND MY FEET;
17 I can count all My bones.
         They look and stare at Me.
18 They divide My garments among them,

And for My clothing they cast lots.

--Matt. 27

35 Then they CRUCIFIED Him, and divided His garments, casting lots,[f] that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet:
“ They divided My garments among them,and for My clothing they cast lots.”[g]…

41 Likewise the chief priests also, mocking with the scribes and elders,[h] said, 42 “He saved others; Himself He cannot save. If He is the King of Israel,[i] let Him now come down from the cross, and we will believe Him.[j] 43 He trusted in God; let Him deliver Him now if He will have Him; for He said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”…

46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” that is, “MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?”

Groundbreaking for the construction of the World Trade Center was on August 5, 1966…In 1970, construction was completed on One World Trade Center, with its first tenants moving into the building in December 1970. Tenants first moved into Two World Trade Center in January 1972. [Thus, the Twin Towers died just about 33 years after they came into existence, for 2001-1968=33!]

Ultimately the complex came to consist of seven buildings, but its most notable features were the main twin towers. Each of the WTC towers had 110 stories. 1 WTC (the North Tower, which featured a massive 360-foot (110 m) high TV and radio antenna added in 1978) stood 1,368 feet (417 m) high,[19] and 2 WTC (the South Tower, which contained the observation deck) was 1,362 feet (415 m) high. [So is Jesus superior to all beings except God the Father, to whom He subordinates Himself insofar as He does His Father’s will. (1 Cor. 15:28) The World Trade Center was God’s perfect work just as the many “Seven Wonders of the World,” and the bodies of human beings and mammals which are stamped all over with the number seven! (See Part One)]

When completed in 1972, 1 WTC became the tallest building on Earth, unseating the Empire State Building after a 40-year reign. 2 WTC became the second tallest building in the world when completed in 1973…With the World Trade Center's destruction, the Empire State Building again became the tallest building in New York, after spending almost 30 years as the third-tallest in the city. [Truly did Jesus walk among His disciples for 40 days after He was resurrected! (Acts 1) For Pericles and Augustus too were “first” among their respective peoples for 40 years, and they are other types of Christ!]

One of the world's largest gold depositories was stored underneath the World Trade Center. [So is there hidden treasure in Jesus! “The kingdom of the heavens is like a hidden treasure…” (Matt. 13)]

The Twin Towers became known worldwide, appearing in movies, TV shows, postcards, merchandise, magazines and much more, and became a New York icon, in the same league as the Empire State Building and Statue of Liberty. [As all these types of Christ are world-famous, so are God the Father and God the Son world-famous! You can see them everywhere!]

EVERY PLACE WHICH HAS TWIN TOWERS IS A TYPE OF THE NEW JERUSALEM, AND THE TRINITY SHOWED THAT IT AUTHORED THEM BY MAKING THEM TALLER THAN MOST OTHER BUILDINGS AND ALWAYS HAVING ONE SLIGHTLY SMALLER THAN THE OTHER!!! For instance, consider the TWIN1 Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, the city where the king of Malaysia dwells, as CHRIST WILL DWELL IN A NEW JERUSALEM!; the Twin Water Towers of Kuwait (and water symbolizes God!!); and the Twin Towers of Dubai of the United Arab Emigrates!

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Dubai of United Arab Emirates kuwait Kuwait City Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lampur

IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE NEW JERUSALEM WILL BE LIKE WHEN IT DESCENDS TO THE EARTH, RESEARCH THE CITIES WHERE TWIN TOWERS AND STATUES OF LIBERTY ARE FOUND!!!

-Kuwait City:
The name is a diminutive of an Arabic word meaning "fortress built near water."[4] It has a population of 3.1 million and an area of 17,818 km². Kuwait is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system of government… Kuwait has the world's fifth largest proven oil reserves [5] and is the ninth richest country in the world per capita.

There are a total of SEVEN airports in the country. [For God authored this country just as He authored the World Trade Center & the human body which too have the number “seven” written on them.]

During the post-World War II period, the United States thrived economically, with increasing international trade. At the time, economic growth in New York City was concentrated in Midtown Manhattan, with Lower Manhattan left out. To help stimulate urban renewal, David Rockefeller, with support from his brother, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, suggested that the Port Authority should build a "world trade center" in Lower Manhattan. [So do God the Father and God the Son found the New Jerusalem, which will be the center of world trade! “The nations of the saved shall walk in its light; and the kings of the Earth bring their glory into it. And its gates shall not at all be shut by day; for there shall be no night there. And they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it.” (Revelation 21:24-26)]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Rockefeller

-Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (July 8, 1908 – January 26, 1979)

There is much evidence of his being Christlike in character, including the following quotation:

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/n/nelsonrock176040.html
You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. -Nelson Rockefeller; compare with Jesus' saying "Shine your light and let the world see your good deeds so that they may glorify the Father in Heaven." (Matthew 5)

God put the word “rock” in his name to show that Jesus truly is the “rock,” as I talk about at great length in my discussion of Jacob’s Ladder in Part Two. The words “rock” and “stone” appear all over the Bible in reference to Jesus. For instance, Jesus says in Matt. 7:24 at the end of the Sermon on the Mount that “whoever hears my words and does them I will liken unto a wise man who builds his house on the rock.”

He was the forty-first Vice President of the United States, the forty-ninth governor of New York, a philanthropist [literally: “lover of men”], and a businessman.

He was appointed Vice President in [December 19, ]1974. He served from 1974 to 1977…He retired from politics when his term as Vice President was over. [As Rockefeller died just over four years after he began his most famous public service, so did Jesus die about 3 ½ years after He began His most famous public service, which also spanned 4 calendar years from AD 30-33, as I argue in my discussion of Alexander the Great. God conceals such resemblances by making them slightly dissimilar: as Alexander the Great is clearly a symbol of Jesus but dies about a year younger than Jesus, though still in his 33rd year, so is there this difference of 4 and 3 ½ years with Rockefeller and Jesus. And so is Jesus the Vice President in the New Jerusalem, for He is subordinate to God the Father. (1 Cor. 15:28; John 20: Jesus calls God the Father “My God”) \

Rockefeller engaged in massive building projects that left a profound mark on the state of New York, so much so that many of his detractors claimed that he had an "Edifice Complex."[3] [SO DOES JESUS CAUSE THE CONSTRUCTION OF ALL THE GREATEST BUILDINGS OF THE WORLD: HE TOO HAS AN “EDIFICE COMPLEX”!!!] He was personally interested in planning, design, and construction of the many projects intitiated during his administration--consistent with his interest in art. Rockefeller was the driving force in turning the State University of New York into the largest system of public higher education in the United States…
He also led in the creation and/or expansion of many major highways (such as the Long Island Expressway, the Southern Tier Expressway, the Adirondack Northway, and Interstate 81) which vastly improved road transportation in the state of New York. To create more low-income housing, Rockefeller created the New York State Urban Development Corporation (UDC), with unprecedented [NO COINCIDENCE] powers to override local zoning, condemn property, and create financing schemes to carry out desired development. [So is Jesus concerned for the poor.] (UDC is now called the Empire State Development Corporation, which forms a unit, along with the formerly independent Job Development Authority, of Empire State Development Corporation.)
In addition, Rockefeller's construction programs included the $2 billion South Mall in Albany, later renamed the Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza. It is a vast campus of government skyscrapers and plazas punctuated by an egg-shaped arts center.

He worked with the legislature and unions to create generous pension programs for many public workers, such as teachers, professors, firefighters, police officers, prison guards, in the state. He pushed through the highest-in-the-nation minimum wage. [Highest out of 50 states? No coincidence!] Public-benefit authorities (some 230 of them, like UDC) were brought into existence by Rockefeller. They were often used to issue bonds in order to avoid the requirement of a vote of the people for the issuance of a bond; such authority-issued bonds bore higher interest than if they had been issued directly by the state. The state budget went from $2.04 billion in 1959-60 to $8.8 billion in his last year 1973-74. [So is Jesus responsible for the greatest benefits to the human race!]

Rockefeller also reformed the governing of New York City's transportation system, creating the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority in 1965. It merged the New York City subway system with the publicly owned Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority and the Long Island Rail Road and, later, Metro North Railroad, which were purchased by the state from private owners in a massive public bailout of bankrupt railroads.

Rockefeller was a supporter of capital punishment and oversaw 14 executions by electrocution as Governor. [JESUS WILL ADMINISTER THE MOST SEVERE PUNISHMENTS IN HELL TO THOSE WHO DON’T BELIEVE HIM.]

Rockefeller died on the evening of Friday, January 26, 1979 at age 70 from a heart attack under circumstances whose details have never been completely revealed. [So did Confucius die in 479 BC at age 72 and so did Socrates his twin die in 399 BC at age 70, for all three men are symbols of Jesus! And Jesus is thought to have died in the dark on Good Friday (although He actually died probably on Wed. or Thurs.)]

Nelson Rockefeller was cremated at Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York. His ashes were scattered at the Rockefeller Estate in nearby Tarrytown. He does not have a final resting place in a cemetery; he is the first Vice President not to have one. [This is no coincidence, for 40 vice presidents preceded him, though cremation has supposedly been occurring since about 3,000 BC!!! SO DID JESUS NOT REST IN A GRAVE AND SO WAS HE THE “FIRSTBORN FROM AMONG THE DEAD” [Colossians 1:18] TO PERMANENTLY BE REUNITED WITH HIS BODY IN A GLORIFIED FORM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1784.html
In 1961, Rockefeller's most promising son and cum laude Harvard graduate, Michael, was lost while attempting to reach remote villages in his native catamaran in the interior of Papua, New Guinea, at age 23. When Michael encountered rough water, he decided to swim ashore for help. Nelson organized an extensive search but his son was never found. [Symbolic of how God lost his beloved Son, and the Son's body was never found, for it was resurrected?!]

-John D. Rockefeller, Nelson's grandfather

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller
he became the world's richest man and first American billionaire, and is often regarded as the richest person in history. [Christ too will be the richest person ever, as Solomon a type of Christ was (1 Kings 3), for all the world's wealth will come to Him (Isaiah 60, Revelation 22)]

He was a devoted Northern Baptist and supported many church-based institutions throughout his life. Rockefeller adhered to total abstinence from alcohol and tobacco throughout his life

From his very first paycheck, Rockefeller tithed ten percent of his earnings to his church. As his wealth grew, so did his giving, primarily to educational and public health causes, but also for basic science and the arts.

Rockefeller gave $80 million to the University of Chicago under William Rainey Harper, turning a small Baptist college into a world-class institution by 1900. His General Education Board, founded in 1902, was established to promote education at all levels everywhere in the country. It was especially active in supporting black schools in the South. [Christ has the concern for the greatest welfare of His people. "Only [God's] goodness and steadfast love will follow me all the days of my life." (Psalm 23)]

Rockefeller, on Gates's advice, became one of the first great benefactors of medical science. In 1901, he founded the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York. It changed its name to Rockefeller University in 1965, after expanding its mission to include graduate education. It claims a connection to 23 Nobel laureates. He founded the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission in 1909, an organization that eventually eradicated the hookworm disease that had long plagued the American South.

Rockefeller, at the age of eighty-six, penned the following words that best describe himself and sums up his entire life
"I was early taught to work as well as play,
My life has been one long, happy holiday;
Full of work and full of play-
I dropped the worry on the way-
And God was good to me everyday."

http://thinkexist.com/quotation/god_gave_me_my_money-i_believe_the_power_to_make/295425.html
“God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God . to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.”

Newspaper article demonstrating how loved Rockefeller was for his benevolence: http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9804E4D81430E233A2575BC2A9659C946196D6CF&oref=slogin

The United States government determined that al-Qaeda, headed by Osama bin Laden, bore responsibility for the [9/11] attacks, with the FBI stating "evidence linking al-Qaeda and bin Laden to the attacks of September 11 is clear and irrefutable".[74] The Government of the United Kingdom reached the same conclusion regarding al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden's culpability for the September 11, 2001 attacks. Bin Laden used Islamic texts to exhort violent action against American military and citizenry until the stated grievances are reversed, noting "ulema have throughout Islamic history unanimously agreed that the jihad is an individual duty if the enemy destroys the Muslim countries."

Osama bin Laden says he had personally directed the 19 hijackers. All the suspected hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon or Egypt. [There is a set of Twin Towers in Dubai of United Arab Emirates, a type of the New Jerusalem! No coincidence!]

Bin Laden…in his "Letter to America" of October 2002: "you are the worst civilization witnessed by the history of mankind: You are the nation who, rather than ruling by the Shariah of Allah in its Constitution and Laws, choose to invent your own laws as you will and desire. You separate religion from your policies, contradicting the pure nature which affirms Absolute Authority to the Lord and your Creator." [God apparently was speaking through him in this speech! THE 9/11 ATTACKS HAPPENED NOT ONLY TO PROVE THE GOSPEL, BUT ALSO TO PUNISH AMERICANS FOR DISOBEYING HIM, SO THAT THEY CAN REPENT.]

Jeremy Glick stated that the hijackers were Arabic-looking, wearing red headbands, carrying knives. [Red is the color of Satan. These Muslim hijackers were possessed by Satan just as Judas was. (John 13)]

For, on http://www.nzghosts.co.nz/WTC.htm, it is said:

11-9-2001 The World Trade Centre and the Pentagon attacked in a cowardly act of terrorism.
As the world grieves for the families and friends of the victims.
The death toll is still unknown.
Readers see satanic face in Trade Centre smoke.
Several newspapers that printed a photo of fire consuming a World Trade Centre tower have received calls from readers saying they saw a strange shape in the smoke.

Some said they could identify eyes, a nose, a mouth and horns in the black and grey clouds.

The Saginaw (Michigan) News received about 50 calls after enlarging the photo to cover almost half the front page in Tuesday's editions.
Reporter Bryce Hoffman, said: "A lot of them asked if we doctored the photo. Some asked if we superimposed a human face on it. We've had some people ask if it was God. We've had some people ask if it was Satan. We've had requests for reprints."

Story filed: 06:20 Thursday 13th September 2001

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ALTHOUGH GOD IS THE ULTIMATE CAUSE OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TWIN TOWERS, BUT THE MORE IMMEDIATE CAUSE IS SATAN; JUST AS GOD WAS THE ULTIMATE CAUSE OF JESUS’ DEATH BUT THE MORE IMMEDIATE CAUSE WAS SATAN (John 13); and JUST AS GOD WAS THE ULTIMATE CAUSE OF JOB’S SUFFERING, BUT THE MORE IMMEDIATE CAUSE WAS SATAN. (Job 1-2)

All seven original buildings in the complex were destroyed during the September 11, 2001 attacks. Three of the buildings collapsed: One World Trade Center (1 WTC, the North Tower), Two World Trade Center (2 WTC, the South Tower), and 7 World Trade Center (7 WTC). The Marriott World Trade Center (3 WTC) was crushed by the collapses of 1 WTC and 2 WTC. 4 World Trade Center (4 WTC), 5 World Trade Center (5 WTC), and 6 World Trade Center (6 WTC) were damaged beyond repair and later demolished. Three buildings not part of the complex were also destroyed: St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church was destroyed by the collapse of 2 WTC. The Deutsche Bank Building was damaged beyond repair by the explosions and collapse of 1 and 2 WTC; and Borough of Manhattan Community College's Fiterman Hall was damaged beyond repair by the collapse of 7 WTC; these are currently being deconstructed.

The south tower (2 WTC) fell at approximately 9:59 a.m, after burning for about 56 minutes. [Truly did the Son of God die in AD 33 within 3 hours!]

The planes which “pierced” 2 WTC correspond to the nails which pierced Jesus’ body.

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More than 90 countries lost citizens in the attacks on the World Trade Center. There were 2,974 fatalities, excluding the 19 hijackers: 246 on the four planes (from which there were no survivors), 2,603 in New York City in the towers and on the ground, and 125 at the Pentagon. [MANY PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD WILL BE BURNED IN THE FIRE OF HELL IF THEY DON’T REPENT NOW!]

343 of these deaths were New York City Firemen…The New York City Fire Department (FDNY) lost 341 firefighters and 2 FDNY paramedics.[40]… A paramedic is a medical professional, usually a member of the emergency medical service, who primarily provides pre-hospital advanced medical and trauma care. A paramedic is charged with providing emergency on-scene treatment, crisis intervention, life-saving stabilization and, when appropriate, transport of ill or injured patients to definitive emergency medical and surgical treatment facilities, such as a hospitals and trauma centers. [The two paramedics represent God the Father and God the Son! Additionally, 343 firemen total died to show that God the Son who SAVES lives from the fire of Hell truly died in AD 33 at age 33!

Three FDNY Firefighters Raise the American Flag in the World Trade Center Rubble. Photographed by Thomas E. Franklin on September 11, 2001: [The most famous picture of firefighters on 9/11 is a picture of THE HOLY TRINITY WHICH SAVES PEOPLE FROM THE FIRE OF HELL AND PRESERVES AMERICA!]

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One of the first memorials was the Tribute in Light, an installation of 88 searchlights at the footprints of the World Trade Center towers which projected two vertical columns of light into the sky. “God is light.” (1 John 1:5) (See my discussion in Part One of how light symbolizes God.)

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And very rich people in New York are planning to rebuild the World Trade Center, including THREE towers on Greenwich Street spaced equally apart!!!!!!! [Truly did Jesus’ body not remain in the grave forever!!!!!!!!]

-NOTRE DAME

This means “Our Lady,” and was dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Like the Parthenon, Greek for “virgin,” this cathedral is a symbol of the Virgin Mary and a symbol of God! Like the Twin Towers, another symbol of God the Father and God the Son, it has two towers side by side of about the same towering height!!! Gothic cathedrals like this one are famous for making visitors feel very small in comparison to God. And as the Twin Towers were ordered to be constructed by Nelson Rockefeller, a type of the Antichrist, so were the twin towers of Notre Dame ordered to be constructed by Maurice de Sully, another type of the Antichrist.
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http://www.answers.com/topic/notre-dame-de-paris
In 1160, having become the "parish church of the kings of Europe", Bishop Maurice de Sully deemed the current Parisian cathedral unworthy of its lofty role, and had it demolished shortly after he assumed the title of Bishop of Paris. According to legend, de Sully had a vision of a glorious new cathedral for Paris, and sketched it in the dirt outside of the original church.

http://www.answers.com/topic/sully-maurice-de
Maurice de Sully (died September 11, 1196) was Bishop of Paris from 1160 until his death.
He was born of humble parents at Sully-sur-Loire (Soliacum), near Orléans, at the beginning of the twelfth century. He came to Paris towards 1140 and studied for the ecclesiastical state. He soon became known as an able professor of theology and an eloquent preacher. In 1159 he appears as Archdeacon of Paris and on 12 Oct., 1160, largely through the influence of Louis VII, he was elected to succeed Peter Lombard in the episcopal see of that city. The present Cathedral of Notre-Dame stands as a monument to his episcopal administration. Its construction was begun and almost entirely completed under him…In the controversy between St. Thomas Becket and King Henry II he energetically defended the former and, in three letters still extant, pleaded his cause with Alexander III. He forbade the celebration of the feast of the Immaculate Conception in his diocese, but is said to have strongly supported by appeals to Holy Writ (Job, xix, 25-27) the doctrine of the resurrection of bodies, against some sceptical noblemen.

http://www.elore.com/Gothic/History/Overview/paris.html "Notre Dame de Paris, more than seven hundred years old, is only the most recent of holy houses to occupy this ancient sacred ground. [of Paris’s “Ile de la Cite”] The Celts held their services on this island in the seine, and atop their sacred groves the Romans built their own temple to Jupiter. In the early years of Christianity, a basilica dedicated to St. Etienne was constructed around 528 by Childebert. A church in the Romanesque manner replaced the basilica, and this stood until 1163 when work began on the structure which stands today.Notre Dame
de Paris."

Timeline of construction (from Wikipedia)
1160 Maurice de Sully (named Bishop of Paris), orders the original cathedral to be demolished.
1163 Cornerstone laid for Notre Dame de Paris — construction begins. [In 33 A.D., 3 years after Christ first publicly declares his vision of the coming glorious body of Christ who are members of the "kingdom of the heavens" and begins his ministry, through his death on the cross "the stone which the builders rejected is become the cornerstone." (Psalm 118:22, Matthew 21:42)]
1182 Apse and choir completed.
1196 Nave completed. Bishop de Sully dies on 9/11/1196.
1200 Work begins on western façade.
1225 Western façade completed.
1250 Western towers and north rose window completed.
1250–1345 Remaining elements completed

from http://www.elore.com/Gothic/History/Overview/paris.html
1699 Reconstruction of main altar begun
1741 Stained glass windows removed
1845 Viollet-le-Duc begins major restoration
1864 Restoration completed

1431 Henry VI crowned King of France within Notre Dame
1548 Huguenots damage features of cathedral following the council of Trent

1804 Napoleon [a type of the Antichrist, as was Alexander t

PART THREE: HOW ALL HISTORY GIVES PROOF OF THE BIBLE AND HELPS US TO KNOW & LOVE GOD BETTER

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