Fulfilled prophecy and survivor of the crucifixion

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

For several centuries, legendary biblical prophets have proclaimed to the Jewish people the imminent coming of the Messiah, who will deliver the "children of Israel" from foreign oppression and spiritual poverty. Isaiah (700 AD) and Zechariah the Serpovidtsa (500 AD) are called "Old Testament Evangelists" by Bible scholars. With amazing accuracy, they predicted all the events that accompanied the redemptive mission of Christ: the solemn entry into Jerusalem, the healing of the suffering, betrayal for 30 pieces of silver, death at Calvary, the burial in the tomb (crypt) of a rich man. What is it: the manifestation of the supernatural in the historical process, the collective genius of the prophets, the artificial "adjustment" of predictions to real historical events, or is it something else - directly related to the Person of Jesus Christ?

Testimonies of Christ

In our time, there is enough convincing evidence in favor of the fact that Jesus Christ is a real historical person. First of all, here it should be said about the XXth book of the work of the Jewish historian Josephus Flavius (37-100 AD) "Antiquities of the Jews", which says the following: "… at this time there was a wise man named Jesus. His lifestyle was meritorious and he was renowned for his virtue; and many people from Jews and other nations became his disciples. Pilate condemned him to crucifixion and death; however, those who became his disciples did not renounce their discipleship. They said that he appeared to them on the third day after his crucifixion and was alive (hereinafter emphasized by the author - V. S.). In accordance with this, he was the Messiah announced by the prophets …”. The quoted passage is recognized by most modern historians to be scientific and reliable.

Secondly, mention should be made of the Shroud of Turin. Today, no one has any doubts about the authenticity of this relic. As you know, a three-dimensional image of the mutilated body of the Savior was imprinted on the fabric in an incomprehensible way. Chemical analysis, in addition, showed that the surviving traces of organic fluids and pollen indicate fairly accurately the first century AD and Palestine.

Among the testimonies of Christ should be attributed the information received by the "sleeping prophet" Edgar Cayce (1887-1945) in a state of trance. The fact that Casey's contacts with the information field were carried out quite correctly is confirmed by hundreds of hopelessly healed patients and a solid collection of medical recipes obtained from an incomprehensible reality, which, refuting all the canons of pharmacology, are capable of creating incredible effects. So, Casey, having connected to the space storage of information, described the situation of the Last Supper to the smallest detail. At the same time, he clarified that Christ was on her in a white tunic.

The great Indian Saint Sathya Sai Baba also testifies to the reality of the person of Christ in our time. Interestingly, when asked about the resurrection of Christ, he replied that the Savior was resurrected in a physical body.

A strong testimony of Christ are the experiments carried out by the Italian monk of the Benedictine Order and at the same time the largest scientist-physicist Pellegrino Ernetti. Padre Ernetti, as you know, invented the chronovisor - a complex device that could penetrate the future and read visual information from there. In the early 70s, Ernetti, with the help of his invention, witnessed the last days of the life and martyrdom of Jesus Christ on the cross. Padre presented the experts with what he claimed was a genuine photograph of Christ. “We saw everything - the scene in the Garden of Gethsemane, the betrayal of Judas, Calvary, the crucifixion and the resurrection of our Lord,” he said at a press conference for journalists. The photograph of Jesus Christ was first published in the Milan newspaper Dominica del Corriere on May 2, 1972. And although experts did not find traces of forgery, the official church did not recognize the authenticity of the picture.

Jesus' earthly journey

Today, in addition to the canonical Gospel literature, there is a sufficient number of materials that clarify, and in many cases present the life of Jesus Christ in a new light. Here, first of all, it should be said about the numerous apocrypha and previously unknown written fragments of the life of Christ, discovered in the middle of the last century in Egypt and on the shores of the Dead Sea, and the taiga of non-canonical legends enshrined in the folklore of many peoples of the world. A lot of interesting information is contained in the works of the Gnostics dating back to the 1st - 3rd centuries. ad. The cumulative analysis of all these sources allowed attentive and open-minded researchers to thoroughly and thoroughly reconstruct the “gaps” in the Gospels and make a more or less consistent version of the earthly path of the Savior. The connecting links between various disparate information about Christ are rightfully the so-called "Tibetan Gospel", discovered by the Russian journalist Nikolai Notovich in 1887 in the Buddhist monastery of Hemis (North India), and the sensational work of Michael Bigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln "The Sacred Enigma", published in 1982 in London. An impressive and captivating picture of the earthly journey of the founder of a great religion, drawn up by talented historians and journalists, deserves to be appreciated by an inquisitive and uncomplexed reader with his own eyes.

Jesus was born into a poor but godly family with a lineage dating back to the great Israelite king David. From childhood, he was interested in religious and philosophical issues, by the age of 13 he was well versed in the Talmud. At this age, according to Jewish customs, parents began to prepare an engagement for the boy, but Jesus resisted the will of his father and decided to run away from home. In his plans, he dedicated his mother - Maria. She sold some of the household goods, gave Jesus some money, and helped set off with a merchant caravan to the East.

At the age of 14, young Issa (as Christ is called in Eastern legends) found himself on the banks of the Indus. In Punjab and Rajputan, he got acquainted with the worldview, life and way of life of yogis - severe Jain hermits. Then Issa lived for 6 years in Jaggernath, Rajagrih and Benares. Here, from the Brahmins, he learned to read and understand the Vedas, to heal with prayers and the laying on of hands, to expel evil entities from the body of possessed people.

Issa did not like the caste division of Indian society. He turned the knowledge he gained against his own teachers, criticizing them for denying the One Eternal Spirit, which lives in parts in every person, regardless of his caste. Issa devoted his skills to selfless help to lepers and the poor. This behavior of a young foreigner clearly did not like the omnipotent Brahmins, and they decided to kill him. But Issa, warned by the people he healed, fled to Nepal and the Himalayas, where he studied Buddhism for 6 years. It was this fact from the biography of Christ that became the reason for the legends about his stay in the mysterious Shambhala, where he was shown the city of the Cosmic Teachers of Humanity and the entrance to other dimensions of space-time.

Then Issa followed through Afghanistan to the west, to the borders of Persia. On his way, he preached the equality of people before the Eternal Spirit, philanthropy, healed the sick and suffering. Rumors got ahead of the preacher and healer, and in Persia he was already greeted as a prophet. Here Issa studied the basics of Zoroastrianism, after which he entered into polemics with the local priests. He denied the divinity of Zarathushtra, the doctrine of the chosen mediators between ordinary people and the Heavenly Father, the worship of idols and fetishes. Issa defended his conviction that all human souls came out of the One Heavenly Father and therefore are equally worthy to approach Him again in the same ways that he himself followed: love for people, teaching, meditation, preaching and healing. Unlike the Brahmins, the Persian magicians decided not to harm the young prophet. They took him outside the city limits and pointed to the road that led to the West.

At the age of 29, Jesus returned to his native Palestine. Having studied the most developed religions of his time during his wandering in the East, he realized that his mind and heart did not belong to any of them. He also realized that the multimillion-dollar and motley East with its well-established religious traditions was too much for even his mighty nature. Jesus turned his noble and ambitious thoughts to Syria, Asia Minor, Greece, Egypt, and Rome. But the experience of asceticism in the East taught him three serious lessons. First, the world cannot be changed alone. Second: without the help of the mighty of this world, any sermon, even the most heartfelt, is doomed to early oblivion. Third: people are accustomed to worshiping invented gods, but not living messengers of the Eternal Spirit - highly moral preachers, sages and selfless healers. And he has an elegant, grandiose and risky plan - to mobilize all his own abilities and skills, enlist the support of influential people and create a new religion on the basis of reformed Judaism that can conquer the Western world. But in the Western world they are accustomed to trusting gods - gods that are immortal and capable of performing miracles. This means that there is only one way to spiritual power - to exactly fulfill all biblical prophecies, prepare faithful disciples, become a living God in your own country, and then send your apostles to carry the good news and preaching of the Teacher to millions of suffering Roman Empire.

Jesus begins to fulfill his audacious designs. For this, he joins the Essenes sect, whose teachings were closest to his views. Without going into details, let's say that this teaching is practically identical in its moral standards to the sermons of Jesus. The Essenes, however, believed that the world would not be saved by the anointed of God, but by a certain Teacher of Righteousness. In addition, they were confident that any prophecy is a plan that can be realized in life. It was this last that brought Jesus closer to the Essenes like nothing else. With his talents, he managed to convince them that he was the Teacher of Righteousness and acquired strong mentally and psychologically helpers who, moreover, enjoyed the love of all the poor and disadvantaged in Palestine.

Then Jesus proceeds to implement the second part of his plan. He marries Mary Magdaley, a woman from the "tribe of Benjamin", a relative of the influential Jerusalem nobleman Joseph of Arimathea, and an extraordinary and obsessed woman. Now, having united the blood of David and Veneamin in his family, he has every right to stand on a par with the powerful of this world - the all-powerful Jewish elite of the “scribes and Pharisees”, and demand material support from them. To do this, he disguises his true goals from their all-seeing eyes and demonstrates his readiness to lead the struggle of the Palestinian elite against the hated Rome and return to the "Promised Land" the golden age of the reign of the kings-high priests. Jesus perfectly understood the illusory nature of his role as the future heir to the throne of the great kings of Israel, as well as the fact that offensive ridicule was heard behind his back on this matter. He also understood perfectly well that in the event of a temporary success of the anti-Roman struggle, the power-hungry Jewish dignitaries would simply kill him. But he was not going to raise an anti-Roman uprising with them. Cooperation with the corrupt and cowardly "scribes and Pharisees" was just an unpleasant but necessary part of his plan.

The fulfillment of the prophecies so well known to the readers of the New Testament began. Everything went according to plan. The hardest part of it was finding a traitor among his students. The choice fell on Judas Iscariot - the most beloved, devoted and unselfish student. We do not know what arguments the Teacher used to make the Disciple a false traitor. Most likely, Judas agreed to his blasphemous role after Jesus dedicated him to the smallest detail in his far-reaching plans. For those to whom this version seems fantastic, let us recall: Judas was the treasurer in the Jesus Brotherhood, and did not need thirty pieces of silver. So the beloved disciple became a traitor, cursed by humanity, and Jesus went to Golgotha. But to Golgotha?

How the crucifixion took place

The scene of the crucifixion of Jesus described in the canonical Gospels, with its unbiased analysis, turns out to be built on contradictions and does not allow us to unequivocally assert that it was on the cross that the earthly path of the fulfilling prophecy ended.

Perplexity begins with an answer to a simple question: "Where did the execution of Christ take place?" According to Luke (chapter 23, verse 33), Mark (25, 22), Matthew (26, 33), John (19, 17), the place of execution was located on Golgotha, that is, on an area whose name is translated from Hebrew as "skull", and which in the 1st century A. D. represented a desolate, deserted, skull-shaped hill in northwest Jerusalem. But in the same Gospel of John (19:41) it is said: "In the place where He was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden there is a new tomb, in which no one has ever lain." That is, according to John, Jesus was executed in the garden, where there was a ready-made crypt in a cave, and not at the traditional place of executions on top of a bare hill. According to Matthew (27, 60), the grave and garden belonged to Joseph of Arimathea - a wealthy man, a member of the Sanhedrin, governing the Jewish community of Jerusalem, and also a secret worshiper of Christ.

Second question: how many people directly saw the crucifixion of Christ? Readers of the Gospels present the crucifixion as a grand event attended by a huge crowd of eyewitnesses. In fact, this is far from the case. If you carefully reread the Gospel of Mark (chapter 15), it turns out that only the top of the Jewish community ("scribes and Pharisees") and Roman soldiers were present at the place of execution. The rest of the spectators were a few women - the mother of Jesus, Mary Magdaleyanka and their friends, who “looked from afar” (Mark, 15, 40), as well as bystanders who did not know anything about the crucifixion in advance (Mark, 15, 29). All of the above is a strong argument in favor of the fact that the execution of Jesus took place on a private territory, where access for outsiders was strictly limited, and moreover, in a rather modest environment. Needless to say, then, the crucifixion performed in such conditions (far enough from prying eyes and devoid of any pompousness) could pass according to a prepared scenario.

Now about the details of the crucifixion itself. The fact is that a person crucified on the cross, if he was in good health, had a chance to live one or two days without medical assistance, however, in a state close to agony. To end the suffering of the victim and hasten her death, the Roman executioners often went to the "merciful" gesture - they interrupted the crucified shins. Jesus escaped this fate. When a Roman soldier approached the executed man to break his bones, it turned out that he had died (John, 19, 33). Familiar with Indian yogic techniques, Jesus could easily mislead his executioners by falling into an artificial coma, stopping his breathing and slowing down the work of his heart. It is no accident that Pontius Pilate expressed his sincere surprise when he learned that Christ died just a few hours after the crucifixion: apparently this did not happen so often (Mark, 15, 44).

In the Gospel of John (19, 28), we read that the crucified Jesus complains of thirst, after which the soldiers hold out a sponge dipped in vinegar on a stick. But vinegar in those days among the population of Palestine was not at all associated with vinegar essence in the modern sense. Vinegar was then called a sour drink that was considered aphrodisiac. It was often given to wounded Roman soldiers, the critically ill, and galley slaves for quick reassurance. But on Jesus, vinegar has the opposite effect: having tasted it, he utters his last words and "gives up the spirit." Such a reaction from a physiological point of view is completely impossible to explain, unless it is assumed that the sponge was impregnated with a narcotic analgesic and at the same time hypnotic composition, for example, a mixture of opium and belladonna, which was then widely prepared in the Middle East.

In general, it seems rather strange that Jesus died very at the right time - just when they were about to break his legs. But one of the prophecies of the Old Testament Scripture, like several others, was exactly fulfilled during the crucifixion. There can be only one explanation for this: Jesus and his like-minded people acted according to a well-developed plan. The plan is very risky, but ingenious in terms of the composition of the right people involved. Jesus attracted everyone: wealthy customers - radical members of the Jerusalem elite, devoted accomplices - members of the Essenes community, ready to follow the "Teacher of Righteousness" and into fire and water, money-loving performers - bribed by customers of the Roman authorities and legionnaires, and witnesses - uninitiated the plan of the fulfilling the prophecies of close relatives and just casual spectators. The latter, together with the disciples, were instructed by the “will of fate” to see and spread the good news about the exact fulfillment of biblical prophecies in the distant outskirts of the Risk Empire.

Jesus after the crucifixion.

Taken down from the cross, Jesus was transferred to a spacious cave (coffin) in the garden of Joseph of Arimathea, located next to the crucifixion site, well blown from all sides by air. In order to avoid access of prying eyes to everything that happened there further, the entrance was filled up with a large stone. The idle townspeople of that time, well aware of the peculiarities of the life of the Jerusalem nobility, said that a well-disguised underground passage led from Joseph's house to the cave. Therefore, it is not surprising that: "Nicodemus, who first came to Jesus at night, also came and brought a composition of myrrh and aloe, about a hundred liters" (John, 19, 39). This may indicate that, on the one hand, the injuries sustained by Jesus during the staged execution turned out to be quite serious, and on the other hand, that his accomplices were preparing in advance to provide effective medical care. In the course of time, professional resuscitators did not hesitate to arrive at the cave. In Matthew (27, 3) we read how Mary Magdalene, hurrying to the tomb on Sunday morning, saw an "angel" in white robes sitting on a stone. And Luke (24, 4) more straightforwardly reports about "two men in shining clothes." But white robes at that time in Palestine were worn by the followers of the Essenes sect, very sophisticated in medicine, with whom, as we have already said, Jesus, after his arrival from the East, maintained the closest relations. Therefore, we have enough reason to interpret the events that followed the crucifixion as follows.

Transferred to the shelter provided by Joseph of Arimathea, Jesus needed serious medical help, which explains the constant presence of one or two Essenes with a solid supply of healing potions (about one hundred liters) near him. Later, it became necessary to place a secondary, but trustworthy person near the entrance to the cave, who was supposed to reassure the supporters and relatives of Jesus, explain his absence and prevent unnecessary accusations of the Roman authorities of theft of the body and desecration of the coffin.

When Jesus, after the crucifixion, appeared to his stunned disciples, he was far from an incorporeal spirit. He showed them his hands and feet, offered to touch the body, and then asked for food (Luke, 24, 36-42).

What is the further earthly fate of Jesus? According to one version, Jesus lived in 45 AD in Alexandria, where, under the name of Ormus, he founded the mysterious mystical order of the Rose and the Cross. After his death, his mummified body was safely hidden in the vicinity of Rennes - le - Chateau (France).

But there is also another version. It is described in the sacred Bhavishya Mahapurana, written in Sanskrit. This Vedic source reports that Jesus, accompanied by his mother Mary and Thomas, went to Damascus. From there the travelers proceeded by caravan route to Northern Persia, where Jesus preached and healed a lot, thus earning the name of "healer of lepers". Further, according to the apocryphal "Acts of Thomas" and other sources, Jesus, Mary and Thomas went to Kashmir. Maria fell seriously ill on the way and died. At the place of her death, located 50 kilometers from Rawalpindi (Pakistan), there is now a small town of Murray, named after her. The tomb of Mary is a shrine to this day.

After burying his mother, Jesus went on to the lakes at the foot of the Himalayas. Here he left his mark on Srinagar - the capital of Kashmir. Then the Great Wayfarer followed deep into the Himalayas and Tibet. The secret Indian legend says that he once again visited the legendary Shambhala, where he took an exam before the Cosmic Teachers and was initiated into Their Great White Brotherhood. But the German theologian Eugene Dreverman in his book "Functionaries of God" notes that Jesus died at the age of 120 in Srinagar. In the center of this city there is a tomb called "Rizabal", which means "tomb of the prophet." An ancient tablet with a relief depicts the feet of Jesus with clear traces of scars left after the crucifixion. In ancient manuscripts, it is said that after the death of Mary, Thomas parted with Jesus and preached the Good News in India. Be that as it may, but Thomas ended his earthly journey in Madras, which is eloquently evidenced by the cathedral named after him, now towering over the grave of the most mysterious apostle.

It remains for us to find out what was the fate of Jesus' wife, Mary, and his children. According to the fascinating hypothesis set forth by M. Bigent, R. Lei and G. Lincoln in The Sacred Enigma (we have already mentioned this book at the beginning of our exposition), the wife and children of Jesus, who were born to him between 16 and 33 AD. e., left Palestine and after long years of wandering settled in the Jewish community in the south of France. During the 5th century, the offspring of Jesus intermarried with the offspring of the kings of the Franks and gave birth to the Merovingian monarchical dynasty. The Merovingians, in turn, gave rise to the Habsburg dynasty, which ruled the Austro-Hungarian Empire for a long time. However, this is a separate story, worthy of an exciting historical detective story …

All that we have stated does not at all diminish the greatness of the Person and the worldwide mission of Jesus Christ. On the contrary, they fill them with a real human dimension. A dimension worthy of the Great Son of Man.

Vladimir Streletsky