The Lost Years of Jesus History Unveiled Dr Kevin Hogan

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This is from the Book of Thomas. This was found a few years ago and it was translated. These are two sides of a rolled scroll, which is why they look like the same. Right? Okay. But they’re not the same letters. And you can see that it’s written in Greek. You can see that. I can see that. And basically it’s just quotations from Jesus. But it’s quoted from the Book of Thomas.

It dates to Ad. This is 100 years earlier than anything in Matthew, Mark, Luke or John. 100 years earlier. So for you Christians out there who are conservatives, you just found yourself a piece of Thomas. Now, why is this important? Because he’s not in your Bible. That’s okay. Thomas wrote this 120 years before anything that we have up here. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John in 200 or maybe 175, but 200, but this is 80 AD.

It was dated to. There’s a lot of scholars that don’t want to do that because then they got to redo the Bible. So Jesus goes through, he starts to collect a group, we know that he goes three years later, he goes into Jerusalem for the last two and a half days of his ministry, and he immediately has about 4000 people. We know he’s got 4000 people. It’s about the size of a legion.

They stay outside of the Mount of Olives. And so it looks like we’re going to have our war. 4000 people against Rome. Okay? Yeah. Okay. Well, this podcast brought to you in part by noble gold investments. No, real quick though, folks, I would like to share with you an opportunity. This is a five ounce America, the beautiful silver coin. It’s about the size of a hockey puck. And you can get one of these gifted to you for free if you qualify.

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She said, kevin, I have all this gold. And I heard that you buy gold. And I go, I do buy gold. And she says, well, but I have all this gold. And I said, I’ll give you what the cost of gold is. And I said, go online, find out what it is, drop me a note, and I’ll buy everything you have. And so that was my biggest one day purchase ever of gold.

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Yeah. So anyhow, so that’s that, folks. You totally missed oUt. I wish I would have hit record like ten minutes ago because this is like two people meeting at a pub, just having a drink and talking old school. Anyway, I was just bringing up, Kevin gave me a compliment. I was like, okay, Kevin, thanks, man. I’m going to have to write you a check now. And then I told him, I said, look, man, I learned it from reading your book 15 years ago.

And I brought this up before, psychology, persuasion. And anyway, you just had mentioned how you got into how that got famous. And tell me again, man, I could hear this two times in a. So, folks, you got to hear this. This is so cool. You’re going to get to know Kevin better with this right here. This is what I get paid for, guys. So all the talk that we do and the work that we’re doing with Jesus, Mary Magdalene, John the Baptist, the Unholy Trinity is really going to be in a book, a novel that I started working on two years ago.

1991, I started writing a book called the Psychology of Persuasion. And there’s an image inside the book that goes at the front of every single chapter. And I was at a Minnesota Twins baseball game, and this is what I created was the paradigm of Persuasion. I was sitting next to my wife, and we had been married, like, seven years at the time, and I was drawing a picture that she was like, what are you drawing on your.

Because I’m the only person in the world that has a notepad at the baseball game. Minnesota Twins. Right? So I’m sitting here drawing this phallic image, and I’ve never done this in my life. I have no interest whatsoever. I couldn’t care less. But I’m like. I’m thinking I’m going through this stage where I’m like, I wonder what things will attract women’s attention more than men? And I was like, oh.

And then I started to write down all the key points of persuasion. So we put this paradigm together, and everybody wanted to. Once they knew who I was, everybody wanted to interview it. Nobody sees the inside of the book until they hear about the outside. So, 1991, the book is written. It took me about a year to write this book. It’s a pretty good book. It’s still pretty good today.

Even 27. Oh, my gosh. Is that right? Dude, it’s crazy. Yeah, it’s about 30 years. It’s insane. Hang on. Let me look at myself. Wow. I’m getting old. Okay, so anyway, I don’t know how you’re doing it. You look younger than your videos from 14 years ago on YouTube. You know what? That’s because of the girl over in Bulgaria that we hung out with for three years. She’s like, you look way too.

I just had to have this, all right? We were together for three years, and I don’t think she’d mind. I’m not going to go mention her name, but we were together for three years, and I loved having a woman tell me what to do in a positive way. And she would tell my office manager downstairs who cuts my hair, she’d say, cut his beard to 4. Well, there you go.

She says, I don’t like the little gray spots here on the side. He’s too young for that. This is totally wrong. I mean, I was like, I had totally the age for gray spots, but she just basically fixed it. We would go into Italian boutiques and stuff, and she would buy me the. Well, she bought me. I paid fortunes for shoes. Come on. I got, like, ten pair of tennis shoes.

I hate wearing good shoes unless I’m getting paid a lot of money. Anyway, she made it so Kevin Hogan would evolve into the. Be relatively stable on video, because she looked at the same videos you did, and she was like, oh, but listen to the content. She says, who’s going to listen to the content if you look like that? I was like, oh, God. Really tough girl. Fabulous.

So it’s 1991, and I write the book, and the book is done mid 91, and now I start sending it off. In those days, we had a dot matrix printer. You’re printing off copies of the book, right? So you print off copy of the book, and you have to write basically a letter for each of the publishers out there. And there’s about, at that time, about 400 publishers in the United States.

So I just started at the top, and I started working my way down, and I got 247 consecutive rejections over a year and a half. Okay. And here’s. Don’t tell anybody. This. This is just so cute. A company called Piccadilly Publishing. Piccadilly, they publish juggling books for clowns. This is such a great. I mean, it was just surreal. And Katie, my wife at the time, she says, you should take it because it’s been 247 people, and they say you can’t write and that you can’t sell books.

And I was like, okay. And then they went bankrupt. Okay. So all of a sudden, my book is contracted to the company, and it’s held in bankruptcy until 94 now. So now one of the other companies that I had sent it to was Pelican Publishing. After I got the rights back to the book, I contacted Pelican. Pelican had given me a favorable response after number about 247. That was 248.

And 249 was Piccadillian Pelican, and Dr. Calhoun, the owner of this company, he publishes Exegler stuff. See you at the top. Closing the sale, art of closing the sale. All those cool books back in the day. And I loved his work, and I thought, this is just like the perfect fit Southern publisher. I’ve always been loved with the south anyway, and it was so cool. So anyhow, so he doesn’t believe that I have a chance either, but he wants me to try because he felt sorry for me, I think.

And so he made me this terrible contract, 10% of net, which is, like, humbling and humiliating. But what choice did I have? Because 247 people said, this man has no talent. So I took the deal. And I said, by the way, if we sell 10,000 copies, because I know that’s got to be at least two or three times the average author, right? He’s like, yeah. I said, can we get 12% of retail on everything over that? And he’s like, 12% of retail? He says, son, that’s two and a half dollars a book, $3 a book.

And I said, yeah. So we hit 10,000 books. And we hit 10,000 books a few weeks before Bill Clinton came out and said, I was called on the Telephone by Rita Del Finner, the New York Post. And the New York Post calls, and she says, is this Dr. Kevin Hogan? I said, yes, it is. I go, who’s thIs? At 747 in the morning? She says, rita Del Finna with the New York Post.

The president of the United States is going to come on TV in ten minutes and say that he did not have an affair with an office in ton. I have translators. When I go on the road to Poland and Prague, and people do tell me what the. This is New Jersey. I don’t understand, said. I said, sure. What do you want me to do? She says, analyze his body language and tell if he’s telling the truth.

And I was like, the president, that’s a big gig, right? I turn on the TV, I stick the VCR. VCR guys is an old thing that runs with the tape in it, and you stick the thing on and you push, and it’s going to record. Okay? And you could hit rewind and fast forward. I don’t even know how long ago that was. I pushed the VCR. He comes on in about three minutes.

He’s behind the podium for about 30 seconds total time. He walks up to the lectern. He says, I did not have an affair with that woman, Monica Lewinsky. And the phone rings, and Rita Del Finner is there. Well, Dr. Hogan, did he do it or not? And I’m like, okay, I need to watch video. I can’t just tell you that’s an opinion. I can tell you an opinion, but I can’t tell you a fact until, like, look at the video over and over.

So I watched. I watched for facial cues. I watched for blinking. It was fine. Usually when blinks come, people are anxious. He wasn’t even nervous. And I was like, this is just amazing. Maybe I thought he did. But I was like, maybe he didn’t. And I kept watching this. I did not have a sexual relationship with that one, Monica Kalinsky. But it finally hit me, right? Like, I’m a right handed guy.

When I’m mad at my daughter, I go, Jessica Lynn, you will behave, right? She’s a psychologist now. Multi million dollar business. It’s just so. Anyway, so. So I was like, he’s righty. When you’re upset and irritated, frustrated. When you’re telling the truth, you don’t use your non dominant hand. You don’t say, okay, Jesse, wait a second. That doesn’t feel very powerful, right? Try guys at like, you know, like, know that’s not real.

This is real. Your dominant hand is real. So she called back. I called her, and I said, you can say, Dr. Kevin Hogan says that Bill Clinton did have an affair with an office intern. It hit the street the next morning. I had copies coming to me by Federal Express from friends in New York, right? And there was no Internet that could transmit the data. That’s how old this was.

So my grandmother in Arizona, who is 88 years old at the time, she calls me up on a telephone the day after. She’s a hardcore Democrat, right? And she says, Kevin, we read what you did with the New York Post. I have to tell you, he is a very important man. He has friends in very high places. I said, nana, he’s the president of the United States. She says, well, I heard what you said, and he did not do that.

And I said, I’m sure you’re right. And then I said to her the words that she always said to me, I got a great story for her merging into our theme today, too. But she said, well, she says, you think what you want, I’ll think what I want. And never the Twain shall. And so that was the start, though. And once that interview hit, we did Howard Stern, we did all of the shock jocks on radio.

We did TV all the time, everywhere, book tours, everything. And that’s how it all started. That was sort of like the evolution. Now I want to merge into. Can I. Can I merge now that I’ve got my grandma on stage with me? I can actually tell you. So I’m a kid, right? I’m eight years old, seven, 8910. And we go to a church that’s very similar to Jewish, Messianic Jewish.

It’s called 7th Day Adventist. It’s a very conservative church. And, Nana, one day we’re doing Bible study. This is like what we like. We did Bible study every single day, every single day we would go to church and then we would do Bible study. Kevin would sit there and ask the priest, right, ask the pastor questions and things like know. And I’d ask all these really tough questions.

And they hated, I think. I mean, they loved me, but they hated, right? I was always asking the questions like, how do we know that and how do we know this? And one day Nana’s telling me she know, she says, you shouldn’t question so much. The pastor. I said, but how do we know that what he knows is right? We don’t know. And she said, kevin, let me tell you a story.

When Chuck and I, my grandfather, were in Alaska one day, it snowed, almost 3ft of snow. And I’m like, nana, it doesn’t snow. 3ft of snow. She says, kevi, we were in Alaska. She says it snowed us incompletely. And of course they’re up in Anchorage, just north of. And the reason this was important was they weren’t able to get out for food, they weren’t able to get out for water.

The house was sealed shut like a tomb. And they went to bed that night not knowing. This is what she told me, not knowing whether they’d be able to even get out ever, like ever, because there’s no telephone, there was no nothing. They were just up on vacation, having fun up in the snow right after World War II. And that morning, the next morning, she says, I woke up, I went out there and there was food on the table, the fireplace was burning and the door was cleared out.

Nothing else was, but the door was cleared, she could open it and get her way out of the house. And I said, well, how’s that possible? And she says, Kevin, an angel did it. And I thought, an angel? How did the angel know you were snowed? But this is sort of like the story of everybody’s experience. Now to hear that story, you would sit there and go, you know what? You couldn’t possibly believe it.

It’s ridiculous. It’s like, how could you possibly? But you know what? I never disbelieved the story. I never disbelieved it. I was never sure of it, but I didn’t disbelieve it. But it helped me understand how religion, the Bible, especially Jesus, especially how it works. You were mentioning the archons the other day when we were talking and I just wanted to take off on that because the archons one of the biggest, first churches and I hate to use the word church because this is still first century, but first century Roman Empire, there was a group that believed, a Christian Jewish group that believed that Jesus was the Messiah.

Okay? They weren’t Christians, but they believed that the Archons ruled the world and that Jesus was coming to save the world from the Archons. And that’s what I was going to share with you the other day. And today I was going to think, okay, so let’s put together a timeline for people. And how is it this that to me, Archons, I mean, it’s one of those things. When I was studying know years ago, I was like, oh, come know.

Is that possible? Is it real? Could that really be? And then I thought, another time, my grandparents took me out one day and we’re looking out at the sky and she says, look up there, I want to show you Orion. And I like Orion’s in the Bible. And she says, well, actually Orion’s in the sky. And so I said, but it really know. And she says, well, yes, heaven is actually in Orion.

I said, where? Show me. And so we went outside. We’re in Alabama at this time. So I look up in the sky and she explains to me, this is Beetlejuice and this is the other four stars. And here’s the belt and here’s the sword that comes down. I’m like, that’s cool. And she said, that star in the middle there is not a star, it’s a nebula. And I said, what’s a nebula? And she says, there’s just a whole bunch of heaven behind that.

And I said, and you’re telling me that God lives there? And she said, oh, honey, he lives there. I said, how do we know that? Like, who said that? She says, well, our Mrs. White said that our prophet. And I was like, how do I know she’s right? But anyway, so this whole thing about whenever you have talked about astronomy and the solar calendar and the solar connection between Enoch and all this stuff for years, well, I got interested in this when I was a kid, but it was like I never took it to the length that you do to interview people with various levels of expertise and fascination and about all of this stuff.

So anyhow, so when you started doing all these interviews, I’m like, I actually watched you and you delved into all of these things that were so cool and so fascinating to me. And I was actually very humbled by what you knew and the people that talked and you got people to share so much stuff. It was really cool. So anyhow, so that’s sort of the birth of how I became interested in the Bible and Jesus too.

And Jesus was never to me, like God or something like that. We’ll talk a little bit about that today. He was really more like. My grandmother described him as, like, my big brother, but he’s your savior, too, so be careful. Okay, big brother, but he’s your savior, too. I’m like, saving me from what? She says, from your sins. I’m like, what sins? I was like, what did I ever do to anybody? She says, well, you’ve sinned.

I’m like, name one. I go, name a sin. What did I do? She says, well, you’ve sworn you’ve said dirty words. I said, I have never said Yahweh. And she’s like, there you go. And I’m like, that doesn’t count. Come on. I was describing the point. So she says, well, you said, damn. That’s not in the Bible. Anywhere I go, I challenge. And so she couldn’t find a sin, and then she sent me out of the trailer.

Go to the trailer. You can’t talk back to me when you’re the Nana in a house. You can do and say anything you want. My grandfather was a colonel in the World War II. By the way, the only Colonel Hogan in the entire US military in World War II was my grandfather. That name sound familiar for a TV show that came out in the 60s. Hogan’s heroes. Oh, Hogan’s heroes.

Yes. Is that cool or what? Anyway, there’s just a great story everywhere, but we have a lot to do today, so we should make a living here for you and the people out there. And by the way, I want to thank everybody for all the cool comments in the comments section. I read every single one. And by the way, one of them said, I lied to you, which actually, I don’t do.

I will make mistakes for sure. That’s a guarantee. I make mistakes because I talk so fast. I make a lot of mistakes, but I would never know. You’re one of the few people that talks faster than me, man. I got to keep up with you, and I appreciate that. I cannot multitask when I talk to you, man. I got to stay focused. You have gusts of up to 200 words a minute sometimes.

Wow. That’s not too bad, actually. That’s moving along. Most people can’t read that fast. Okay, well, maybe that’s where our superpowers come in, right? Talking extra fast, we can put information right into the subconscious mind, and they don’t even realize it yet. Before you can deny it, before you can deny it. That’s a good one, man. Rex has got to teach me how to do, I’ve done over probably 2000 webinars and Zoom meetings and all this.

I have never had PowerPoint slides. I have been teaching speakers how to speak for 15 or 20 years. And I’ve always told them if you have the PowerPoint on, they will not be looking at you and they’ll hire the PowerPoint next time instead of you. So you might want to not have PowerPoint, but because this is such a big subject, I mean, people have such powerful, diverse beliefs about all this.

And my goal, by the way, if you’re a conservative Christian watching this today, you got tons of good news here because people are going to say to you, oh, Jesus doesn’t exist. And I can just tell you right now, I guarantee, well, one to 99 is my ratio. I don’t have a zero and 100. I’m never sure of anything and I’m never sure something’s wrong. But one to 99 and Jesus ranks in 99 on the scale.

So you’re good to go. All right. And I’ll explain. And by the end of today you’ll know why because we’ll find out who Jesus really was. And the reason that we have doubt and people wonder whether Jesus was really there is because of all the crazy stories that got put out about him. And it’s like, okay, there you go. Do you believe that really? Okay? And people are like, no, it couldn’t be real.

And it pushed people away. So, conservatives, you’re going to have a field day today. But for my liberal friends, you got to realize, too that there’s a lot that you need to know when you’re talking to those conservatives over there to put them on the spot. And I’m going to teach you some tools today, too. So we’re going to talk about the whole thing broken down. And all of this is going into the new book on Holy Trinity, which will be out six months from now.

And I still, every single day I work on the book, I perfect it. And it’s a novel. It’s historical fiction, right? It’s not like to tell you this is fact because when we talk about Jesus, we’ll get there. It’s impossible to do this subject linearly. It doesn’t really work. It’s just so multifaceted. Because you believed something that your grandma told you when you were a kid. This person believed something else.

This person believed something else. So what I’ve tried to do is find out the most likely scenarios. It doesn’t mean I think it’s the answer. It means it’s of five options. Say five things like who wrote the Bible? Well, that’s a really big question. All right? But if it. Know who wrote Kevin’s book? The Psychology of Persuasion. Okay, that’s a digital answer. Kevin wrote it. Okay, that’s pretty easy.

But when you say who wrote the Bible, you have to define the word Bible. Are you talking about the Catholic Bible of today? Are you talking about the Protestant Bible of today? They’re very different. Okay, are you talking about the first Bible that we pulled in 1200 AD, that’s what, 800 years ago? That’s pretty good. It’s like, are we talking about that one? Are we talking about some of the incomplete Bibles that we had back in about 400 AD where there were 70% complete or they had books in them that the church took out, which is a real shame.

Like shepherd of Hermis and the Gospel of Peter. And I mean, there’s clement and a whole lot of other stuff, names that just drove me crazy when I was a kid. I didn’t want to see them. It wasn’t part of my world. But they were all in the original complete texts that were available now. Today we have 5400 original, original, original going back to 1200. All the way back to 300 manuscripts of the Bible.

Okay? In those 5400 manuscripts, they are all different from each other. They contain approximately 44,000 mistakes per copy on average. And across all of it, there are over 20 million variations total from book to book to book. And some of those variations, most of them don’t matter. They’re like the spelled wrong, for example. Okay? But some of them really matter a lot. Like saying somebody is the son of Jacob versus the Son of God and an angel is a real different thing.

And so the Bible has been changed. So who wrote the Bible? We’re going to go to that in a second and I think I’ve got a screen coming up on that. And then who is Jesus? I think this is one of the wonderful things to think about in life. He was the most attested to person by far in the world. Nobody has said more about anybody. Maybe Elvis, maybe not, but it’s a push, right? John Lennon used to say, you know, we’re more popular than Jesus.

And when your comparison point is Jesus, you know that you’re big. Right? So the church changed as the church evolved and it took about 300 years for it to stabilize after Jesus death. And we’ll talk about that in a minute. It took about 300 years to stabilize and then they sort of eventually figured out what they wanted to teach, and they hoped they would teach it forever because it was getting complicated and they were having to kill people.

And Rome did not like Jews or Christians or any of that stuff until they figured out how to make it profitable. And that’s a pretty cool story today. And I think some of the cool things that you can take home today are. My daughter calls me a feminist, which I think is hilarious, but she says, dad, you’re such a feminist. And I’m like, I just think that women are the same as men as far as intelligence and what they do.

She says, well, you believe women should get paid more? I said, no, I believe that whoever does the best job should get paid. She says, well, then you’re a feminist. And I’m like, well, there you so. But Mary Magdalene, why the heck is. Know, it took me years to figure this out in a lot of reading, and I really didn’t come to the conclusions until this last two years.

Mary Magdalene turned out to be really important. And we didn’t even know until the Nagamati scrolls were texts were found in Egypt. And we were able to read the Gospel of Mary Magdalene and learn just how important this person was. And then when you go back and you look at the Bible, you can see where she’s been. I actually have a couple of slides where you can see where the editors in the Bible in 200 actually changed people’s names, took Mary out.

Maryamne, I can show you in Greek. And then they turned it into Martha and Mary to make her half as important. And then in some other ones, they would take the Mary out completely and just leave it Martha. All right, so the church did not like Mary Magdalene. They turned her into a prostitute, if you’ll remember. Right. You’ve probably heard that story. So it’s like, was she a prostitute? Probably quite the opposite.

It’s an interesting story. We’ll go there and I think, yeah. Ever wonder what the Bible was when Jesus was born? So let’s start here. This is a great start point. So Jesus is born. What’s the Bible? Okay, well, first of all, there’s no printing press, right? All right. There’s no printing press. There’s no Internet. All right. 95% about of the population of Judea. Hey, you’ve got the screen.

I want to make a distinction here. Can you go to the last slide on this? And I want to show, like, where Judea is Versus Galilee, the very last one. Are we able to just like. Can we. Yeah, I can do that. Absolutely. Because I use the literal words. And most people just call it Israel, but that’s really not correct. And I want to try to be as accurate as possible so you can Google everything I say.

So, Inspector, there you go. Standby. Let me see here. I’m trying to pull up the slide layout. Let me see. Once people understand where stuff is, everything makes just a little bit more sense. There we go. Okay, so go to the very last one and pull up that last one there, if you would. Okay. So this, by the way, today, Israel is like a matchbook on a football field.

Okay? Israel is a dinky little country. You’re talking about a 1 hour drive from. Well, two hour drive from the bottom to the top. So you can see where Judea and Galilee are. Those are the two key things that we talk about. Right? So Galilee includes things like Nazareth. Nazareth is where Jesus was born. Okay. And if you look down there. Yep, Jesus was born there. Now, it conflicts with what the Book of Luke said, but Luke wasn’t very smart with geography in the Holy Land.

Matthew was a lot better at this, and so was Mark. And so anyway, Jesus is born in Nazareth, and then he ends up living in Capernaum on Lake Galilee, which is also called Lake Tiberius, when the Romans took over. And that’s right there. And that’s where his home is. And that’s actually where one of the very first synagogues, which actually, I really debate with scholars about when the first synagogues were built, or is it during the time of Jesus? I actually can’t find enough evidence to prove that.

However, we do know that there was a Jesus, that there was a synagogue, which is sort of like a person’s house, basically, and people would go there, meet. The word synagogue is a Greek word, okay? Nobody knows this. The word synagogue is a Greek word for a Hebrew speaking nation. All right? Greek word for a Hebrew speaking nation. That tells you how late that it came into the language.

Right? So my argument has always been really simple, which is, if synagogue was used before Rome took over in about 90 or 63 BC, why were they calling it a synagogue? Why were they calling it a Greek word? It’s almost not possible. Anyhow, so Jesus, let’s just say that he went to the synagogue and taught people it was really the neighbor’s house, is what it was. And the word was synagogue, which is the same word as Ecclesia, also a Greek word.

And they’re synonyms, and they both mean the same thing, which is a group of people. That’s what it means. They use it for the carpenters and they use it for unions and they used it for politicians. So we’re going to have an eclissia of politicians today. Eclissia of all the women in town. Really, this is how it worked. They were like associations. So that’s what the word means.

So when you hear the word church the way that I think of church is like your house, you have 20 people come, everybody sits down and learns. And that’s what it was back in the day, in Jesus day. And that’s the only place the exceptions to that, at least in Galilee were if they happen to go to the temple in Jerusalem. So let’s go down to Jerusalem. I want to show you Judea now.

And I want to point out a couple things down here. Judea, if you look and see Jerusalem is right there. Now this is only about a two hour drive. That’s about it. Maybe 1 hour drive. A long walk by the way. Okay. And early, like maybe 200 years before they did walk down to Jerusalem they did take the week to go to the Holy days. Three sets of holy days a year, three weeks a year.

But as politics and religion starts to split conservatives and liberals. The conservatives were up in Galilee. The liberals were all in Judea. Okay. And so one other thing you want to note there, right below Jerusalem is the town of Bethlehem. There’s Bethlehem and Bethany. Both are important. We’ll talk about both today. Bethlehem is where Luke says that Jesus was born. Okay, well we’ll talk about that too today.

All right. Because he can’t be born in two places. The guy’s good, but he’s not that good. All right, so in all probability Nazareth and in all probability. I’ll get to the story in a sec. So this is what we’re looking at now. Two other things. So you saw the Sea of Galilee which is where Jesus lived his entire during his ministry. That’s all there. Three years. Right.

He lived there and Jerusalem. He spent three days of his life in Jerusalem, period. That was it. Three total days. And the Dead Sea. You see Qumram, we’re going to talk a lot about that because thAt’s probably next to Jerusalem and Capernaum. That’s the most important little teeny town that boasted maybe 2000 people for 300 years and still does. And that’s about it. And it’s such an amazing place.

And this is critical to our understanding of everything of who Jesus was, the Bible and all of that. So that gives us now just for, I want to put this one more thing into context. Go up, maybe one more. Just go up. One slide to 42 or 41 there. And this is the Roman Empire. Okay, now, could anybody find where. What we were just talking about is just take it.

Go to the Eastern Mediterranean. Further over. Now you’re up in Greece, Italy. You’re getting towards Italy. You’re in Greece. You’re almost to Turkey. And to the. Go to the right. You’re right. Is that your right? Really? Okay, now it’s actually down here. If you can see Cyprus down there. Hold on a second. Okay, I’m zooming. It’s really hard. See, this is how Cyprus. Okay, yes, I see Cyprus.

Okay. I mean, this is how hard this is to contextualize. Right. Okay, here we go. Here we go. Right, you got it. So now you can see where Jerusalem is. And you can see that Judea and Galilee are. Matchbox on the football field of the. There’s just. It’s nothing. It’s nothing. It’s tiny. This is the Roman Empire. You can see it takes up Britain, Spain, France, Poland, Italy, everything all the way.

And then on the south side, it’s got Morocco and Egypt. And Egypt is very important, by the way, and so is Ethiopia. And so all of that’s along the bottom side. So this is a massive empire that Rome had. And Judea and Galilee caused more problems for Rome than I think Alexander the Great, his lineage did. I mean, the Jews were a pain in the butt to the Roman Empire.

Okay. A total pain in the butt. This is a 20th century map of the same exact area with the words of the day, back in the day. So you can see sort of a little bit better. Look. And you can now see where that area is. Israel. The matchbox on a football field. Down. So that’s that. Thank you. So that puts that in coNtext. So let’s now talk about this guy, Jesus.

So, Jesus, I want to go from the typical Christian perspective that I think will work. Yeah, we can go to that slide, the one with the little arrows and all that. That’s pretty cool. We’ll go there. Okay. So right now we’re in the Jesus, John and Mary section, which is the fourth one there. And so Jesus is born. We’ll talk about how. What happened and all that. So the guy is born, right? He’s a kid.

He grows up. He grows up. And if you believe some of the Gospels, which are. There’s about 42 Gospels altogether. We found them all in Egypt. We find everything in Egypt. The oldest copies of the Bible. 42? Yeah, 42. Of all things, man. Oh, that’s right. Six sevens or something like that. 42. From the hitchhikers Galaxy. And then there’s also thoth, the 42 laws of Maat, Egypt. Connections.

42. That’s a magical number. And there you go. And that’s why every day I learn something new about all this. So there you go. And by the way, there are other magic numbers, too. So Jesus is born and he grew up. Now he’s got to grow up somewhere, right? So, like, where would Jesus grow up? Well, in Nazareth. Okay. So his dad is Joseph and his mom is Mary.

Okay? So let’s not get into the religious part, or else I have to tell you that he’s born, like, of a virgin and explain to you that the word virgin, that’s quoted from Isaiah 40, verse three, I think it was. You get older, you forget some of this. I think it’s Isaiah 43. But anyway, basically it says. And it wasn’t talking about Jesus, but it’s okay. So Matthew quotes this verse and says, and he would be born to a virgin, which is totally true because the word virgin in Hebrew means young girl.

And Mary absolutely was a young girl, and Jesus was about. And I’m going to explain that story to you later on, but she was about 13 when he was born, twelve when she conceived. Okay. And however she conceived, we’ll get to that, too. So now he grows up. So the question is where? Well, when you look at all of the Gospels and you start to takE. I take away the magic out of everything.

I take away all the fun. So, like, the stories about Jesus being two year old and killing his playmates and all that kind of stuff with ray gun like powers and all this kind of stuff, I’m not saying it’s not possible, because I believe that everything is possible. It rates a one on my scale. All right? But it is possible. And I can give you a scenario, and I’ve made a scenario where is.

That’s. That would be the Secret infancy Gospel of James. Secret infancy Gospel of. Yeah, you can read. That’s also in the Gospel of Philip. He writes a really good book about this. Like, he’s got Jesus killing people throughout his whole childhood. So when I started writing the book, I’m like, this is cool, but I can’t write that he’s a two year old, kill another two year old by zapping him because he’s mad at them.

So what I did is I transferred it into Jesus being sort of the kid that people wanted to stay away from because they. It. I was just trying to think of always, like, what’s the more likely scenario here? Not that it’s not true. It could be true. And of course the Church believed this. The Church. There I go again. I’m talking about one of the churches in Rome, okay? Which eventually that Brand would become.

Boy, see how easy to get sidetracked? Yeah, the Vatican eventually. It took 400 years before they had a pope. But Peter wasn’t a pope. Peter was, oh God. Anyway, so he was a fisherman guys, a fisherman. He knew how to bait a hook. Really. Jesus was so irritated with Peter all the time. Mary Magdalene was constantly getting him back in line. Okay, so Jesus is born, he grows up, he grows up with the story told to him that son, you are destined to become an anointed one.

An anointed one. A messiah. Everybody, everybody in Judea and in Galilee up there knew exactly what a Messiah was. A messiah was something that the Galilean area desperately wanted. They were poor. It was Alabama, okay you’re talking about a conservative area. That’s very poor, okay, very poor. Conservative. And Jesus grew up in this very poor conservative area where no one really wrote, where no one could write. There were no people writing books.

One of my favorite lines for people is so who was going to read the book? Because nobody read. And like there was no library in Galilee. There wasn’t a library in Jerusalem. Jerusalem was the most advanced city except for Rome in the entire Roman Empire. And Alexandria, okay so it’s number three. So Rome, Alexandria and Jerusalem. But he didn’t go to Jerusalem. And there were some smart people that were educated in Jerusalem because it was very Hellenized.

That means the Romans had done a lot of business there. They paganized the city, really divided the whole Israel into two sections. Like it’s okay for us to have Julius Caesar here as our new God and place it and sort of side by side with Yahweh and L. That’s another whole story. But he didn’t go there. He only went one time when he was twelve years old. He went to the Temple, they dedicated him.

And in those days when I was a kid we were always taught twelve years old is the age of accountability. So if you screw up when you’re eleven, no problem, you’re free. If you screw up at twelve, just like in the Bible, you pay the price buddy. You’re an adult. That’s what the age of accountability was. So Jesus had to go to the Temple when he was twelve and Joseph and Mary took him up there.

The story is real clear cut and it’s replicated in numerous gospels. No reason not to believe it. Now what did he do between birth and twelve? Okay. He probably hung out a lot with his dad and his mom. And we know, according to Mark, the very first thing we learned about Jesus is that he came up from Egypt. Now, that’s cool. That takes a conversation. I’ll come to it in a while.

All right, so once he’s twelve years old, he disappears off the face of the earth for 15 years. 15 years. We don’t have any data about what Jesus does. Nothing. So we have to speculate, what does the guy do? Well, what does a normal twelve year old Galilean do who is a very conservative Jew. Super conservative Jew. And he happens to live in Galilee. And Galilee, remember the Dead Sea, which is down by Jerusalem? That’s all on the River Jordan there.

All right, think about this for a second. You’re a kid. You’re twelve years old. There’s a group of people over in Kumaran called the Essenes, all right? And they have this settlement. It’s a sectarian thing. You would call it a cult today, like Waco or like any. So Qumran is right by Jerusalem. It’s 5 miles away. All right? And as much. Now here’s the deal. As much as Jerusalem hated the people at Qumran, and the people at Qumran hated the people at Jerusalem, there were a few good priests in the Temple that were not bought off by the Romans that actually kept in touch with the Qumran community.

And so the temple would share, know, like scrolls. Like, this is what people looked at who could read. Okay? And so they would share them. They would, like, send a copy over to a wealthy person’s house or a person in Qumran that lived nearby in Bethany, maybe. And that was like, if you had a copy of Genesis, for example, or Isaiah, which the chances are almost impossible, but if you did, it came from either Jerusalem, Kumaran, or a very wealthy person’s house.

Okay? There might have been 20 copies of the Book of Genesis in every work except for Kumaran, where there were actually 19. We know that factually. So Kumran became sort of the place where as much as we don’t like them, they’re like a bank that has a vault. It’s like they know where to stick stuff. So when the Romans come at us again and again and again and again, they’ll be safe in the caves, right? They’ll be safe in the caves.

They’re holy books. And of course, most of the priests couldn’t have cared less about the Bible, the scriptures, or whatever you want to call it. They didn’t care. They were there making money. They were making money sending it to Rome. Rome was building Jerusalem into the. Oh, my gosh. It’s like the classic city of all time. You got to look sometime and just study Herod’s buildings. He built Cesarette and Maritimea.

He came up with the idea of an aqueduct for an entire country. He built the Masada, the fortress where the final in the Jewish War in 70 AD. That’s where the final people lived. These were magnificent places. The Herodium. Oh, my God. I mean, just extraordinary and beautiful. He had for as evil a person as he was, he was a genius in architecture. Jesus is growing up with a group of people who hate him, and yet Epiphanaeus, this dude, like he’s a church father, says that Jesus Sister Solome was married into the Herodian family.

Okay, now, I’m not saying that’s true. It’s going in the book because it’s interesting. Okay. All right. And we’ll talk as we go through the series of interviews, videos, whatever, we’ll talk about some of these really incredibly powerful ideas that nobody’s ever talked about. Nobody wants you to know. Nobody wants you to know that maybe Jesus Sister married into the Herodian family. And here’s one that’s not a maybe.

We know that Herod’s person that was in charge of all of his homes, okay? He was basically Herod’s manager. His name was Chuza. So Chuza, he works for Herod, lives with Herod, takes care of Herod’s houses every single day, talks with them at the end of the day, tells him all what’s going on, including with his navy out at the Mediterranean. And then his wife Joanna becomes Jesus’number one sponsor next to Mary Magdalene.

They paid the bills for all of the disciples, all these people, to get food and lodging and places to live as they would do their ministry throughout Galilee, because it costs a lot of money to go out and do your gigs. It’s just expensive. And you have to pay for people’s food. You have to find places for people to sit. There were no big buildings, nothing. The biggest building in Capernaum might have been a restaurant, maybe for eight people.

Typical to a Spain sidewalk cafe. Right? And that’s about what it was. So Jesus grew up in this thing where he grew up in the conservatives and the Group of Essenes, never mentioned in the Bible. That always tells me that Rome does not want you to know about this. When something’s not mentioned and it’s this important so it’s like, in all probability, Jesus became like John the Baptist probably was.

I’m going to say this in a very pleasant way, and then I can tell you the other side of how it’s not so pleasant, maybe. But the. The Essenes who lived in Qumran, they would get their draft choices for the upcoming football season. They would go into the cities and they would take boys and they would talk to the parents and they would, you know, we’d like to take your son and teach him and school him in religion like that.

And that’s how it’s told by Josephus, who was an Essene in Galilee and was with the Essenes for probably two years. Based upon how he writes, he didn’t make it to the final stage. So that’s pretty cool. But it’s not mentioned in the Bible. Now, why wouldn’t it be mentioned in the Bible? What doesn’t the Church want me to know? That’s a pretty important thing, because the Essenes get this much discussion in Josephus.

He’s the ancient Jewish historian who wrote more. His book is this fat. It’s bigger than the Bible. He wrote the entire Jewish history all the way to their present day in 95 AD, 60 years after Jesus died, or, according to the story, after he died. And then. So why don’t they want to know? Obviously, there’s something about the Essenes that Rome does not want me to know. It turns out that what they didn’t want you to know is that Jesus and John, in all probability, were schooled exactly how Josephus says, which is the Essenes go.

They go into town up in, let’s say it’s Tiberius, which was a Greek city in between Capernaum and Bethstada, I think it. So they go into the cities and they talk to the parents and say, hey, free education for your kid. He’ll learn how to write. He’ll learn how to read. He’ll be a good person and a God fearing person. That was really important. Alabama. Alabama. Alabama, Alabama.

And so the parents would Say yes. So he would get religious schooling. I think. I would bet. I would call this one an 85 very high probability that 99, that John the Baptist wasn’t a scene. Because everything that John the Baptist taught is right out of Kumran and their Bible, which included not only all the books that you would recognize as the Bible, you guys, but also everything.

Like when you look at what was found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, they had. Gosh, I’m gonna say. I’m gonna say there were 800 books that we’ve currently gone through, and 15,000 fragments, and there’s still 100,000 to go, which means they wrote tons and tons of stuff. They did commentaries on the Bible. They were a very prophetic group. They were very much like a church that believes that Jesus is coming soon.

Except for it wasn’t about Jesus, it was about the teacher of righteousness and that he would come and that he would lead in the final war against Rome and that they would get help from God. Okay, well, that’s exactly what Jesus believed. That’s what John the Baptist believed. And so Jesus grew up, probably spending about a year or two, and so did John the Baptist with his cousin here in Qumran.

And then he went back home and probably said, mom, I can’t handle anymore. They won’t let me in. They want me to stay with them and not tell anybody about my job, because his mom told him early on, said, hey, kiddo, you are going to be a messiah. A messiah was either a. A priest, the high priest in Jerusalem, which was no longer possible because it was always taken by a Roman.

Now Rome placed a person at the top of the Temple and then. So the only alternative was that he was going to be king like David, or like any of the other Messiahs were going to try to replace and start things and get rid of Rome out of. So. So Jesus thought it was a stupid model, basically. John the Baptist thought it was a dumb model. It makes no sense.

We’re going to sit here and all talk to each other. All day long we’re going to copy scriptures. All day long we’re going to sit here and read the Bible. All the Bible. Hundreds of books. Not 27 New Testament books, not 39 Old Testament books, but like hundreds of Old Testament books and many books that were right at the cusp of Christianity. It’s in Jesus time that the Book of Daniel was completed.

For example, if you don’t know anything about Daniel, Daniel was a prophet and it was completed. He finished his work in about 30 AD is what the best dating is, and it’s pretty cool, and a lot of people don’t want to recognize that. But the scrolls are there, they’re dated. It’s pretty cool. So Jesus grows up. So now he’s 25 and he’s working probably with his dad, probably does things up in Sephiros, which is the city that you can see from Nazareth, Greek city that’s growing really big.

I don’t see Jesus as anything but a Tecton, a carpenter, masonry know he’s kind of like a smarter than average guy, but I also see him as a guy that his parents probably sent to Egypt to go to Alexandria and to go down to Elephantine and to learn from the Temple there because the Temple in Jerusalem was like to these guys, Alabama conservative. It’s like going to a Lutheran church.

They don’t want you going to Jerusalem. They want you going to where you’re going to learn from Philo. The guy named Philo who was there until 50 AD, he helped collect all these books and get stuff published and things like that. They had a library down there in Alexandria. Of all the books in the free world, it was pretty cool. That’s why every single copy of the oldest Gospels is found in Egypt, because Philo and all these other folks in Alexandria for 200 years collected every single book, Plato and all that stuff, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, all of them.

They had everything. And you can see where Christianity comes from. So Jesus now, so he goes down, I suppose he learns from Philo because some of the stuff that he talks about and that’s talked about him, you might have heard the word logos right in the beginning was the word. The word was God. The word was with God and all things were made through him. Okay? This is not a unique thing, all right? This comes from Philo.

There’s nothing here that’s, that’s special. Philo wrote about logos long before and 200 years earlier, Plato wrote about it. So the concept went on like that, but Jesus had to learn it somewhere. Okay, the most likely place is Philo. So he probably went down there. And so the Bible, what we have in our little dinky Bible today in the New Testament is probably right. He probably did go to Egypt, probably learned in Egypt and came back after he learned what he needed to know.

And so now he’s 27 years old and he goes on his very first mission. What is it? His very first mission. He knows he’s destined to be a Messiah. That means he’s going to have to develop an army. He’s going to have to build a group of men, not women, but women had a different role. Their job was in education, their job was in teaching. Their job was in making the men get stuff done.

And men’s job was basically to go to war. And so every 50 years, approximately, there were seven Messiahs. Jesus was going to be number seven, and so was John the Baptist, by the way. He was a Messiah too. But John the Baptist was not going to rule any country. You could tell by the way he. 7th Son, tell me about that. Well, there’s just in mythology, there’s even a film out called the 7th Son.

And that’s like the most important bloodline number, seven. So the fact that you brought up the 7th Messiah, that’s very significant in numerology. I see. There you go. Oh, you like numbers? See, there you go. So I’m learning Rex’s patterns here now. Well, Jesus was 880, sort of. That’s different. We’ll talk about 666 and 616, too, later on. It’s 27 AD. His mom has told him, you’re going to be the Messiah.

That’s the deal. I believe that Mary really believed that she was visited by a messenger when she was 13 and said, hey, your kid is destined to be the Messiah. Okay? Because Jesus, if you remember, well, I’ll get to his birth story and where he came from in the temple. So now it’s 27 AD, and he’s now going to start fulfilling his mission. It’s his job to start collecting an army to fight Rome.

And he fully believes exactly how all the other Messiahs believed, which is that God would come and help them because they live in Galilee. They’re fishermen. I mean, I’m not kidding. This is a very. It’s Alabama trying to fight against. You saw the Roman Empire and you live in Galilee, which is the matchbox inside of the matchbox of the football field. It’s really tiny. It’s asking so much of a person to take this job.

And I think the last time you and I talked, we looked at a couple of them at Wikipedia. Judas the Galilean was one of the Messiahs, for example. Failed, but he did a great job. Developed an area called Gamala, where the tough zealots lived. These were all the people who believed everything the Essenes believed. Except we’re going to make the point. You guys write about it and teach us all the stuff in the religion, the spirit.

So all that kind of stuff. Keep in touch with God for us. Meanwhile, we’re going to sharpen our knives like hardcore militant preppers in today’s day and age. Absolutely correct. Okay. Yep. Okay, so. So that’s the. So basically what you have is you have take a country, United States, wherever you live, but the same stuff, factions that you have here is what was going on there, too. And it was the same amount of tension, except for one thing.

Canada is not trying to kill us, okay? Canada is not trying to tell us what to believe. Canada is not trying to put pagan idols inside of our temple, which was holy. But Canada would have had to have collected all this money and then they would have become the Roman Empire because Judea was this huge money bank. Herod had developed this amazing system. Tell you about the taxes later on and all that kind of stuff.

Okay, we’ll come there. So Jesus, now, his very first mission, he’s going to go and heal demoniacs and things like that. People who are possessed, lepers, people with mental problems. There were a few that were more spectacular than that, that I really questioned the veracity of. Certainly, working with demon possession, I would say that’s a 99. But working with some of the other miracles that they say that he did, I put them closer to five or three or two.

But one thing is for sure, you had to be able to get a reputation, all right? He had to get a reputation and attention. He had to show that he had magical powers. Remember, this is the time of Julius Caesar. That’s a zoom in there. Can you see? No. You want me to do screen share again? Let me turn it back on. Julius Caesar. Yes. Where are we? No, I mean, all I see is the word zoom here.

Oh, yeah. That’s weird. Yeah, I was just looking at you. We were doing video. I want to see you. You don’t see me now. Try turning off your screen share or something because, yeah, I’m here, man. I can’t. All I have is literally a page that says Zoom on it. And that’s it. That’s really weird because, yeah, my video has been on the whole time. So bizarre. Okay, so, guys, we’ll edit this.

I think I’m going to launch the meeting again. For me, this is just what? Oh, there you are. Whoa, whoa. Everything’s perfect now. Oh, yeah. All right. It’s a miracle. Hello. God has a sense of humor. Thanks. I appreciate that. Awesome. Anyway, he’s 27. The first thing his mom tells him, his brothers and sisters thought he was pretty crazy, by the way. Let’s just get downright honest about it.

His mother and brothers and sisters, they follow him everywhere he goes. If he’s going to leave more than just out of Nazareth or Capernaum, they literally go with him to sort of like, protect him and to watch over him. His brothers did not like him all that much. Jesus literally could not stand his own family and said, oh, I see. One day Jesus is out talking. And there were no street corners, but he would be talking in a field.

50 people come out and listen to him talk and people would say, hey, is that your mom and your brothers and sisters over there? And he’d say, look, my mother and my sisters and brothers, that’s nOthing. You’re my brothers and sisters. And the brothers and sisters were like, oh, he’s not a well man. And so that’s really what it was. They, Mary is the only person who kept this sort of neutral position.

Like, I really want my son to fulfill his mission. Nobody else in the family really believed that he was any different than anybody else, okay? That wasn’t there because they didn’t see him zap the people like the other gospels say, and kill them and all that kind of stuff. They saw a normal everyday person, well, sort of normal everyday person who changed his mind a lot as he talked every day.

So very first thing he goes basically is to heal somebody. He heals a leper, then he heals Mary Magdalene. Mary Magdalene he runs through in about like the first month of his service in ministry. And it’s an important person to heal because she had seven demons. And he cast them out, threw them into the swine. The swine go into the lake. And they were very mad at him.

Demons don’t really die. You can’t really kill demons in this experience, in this belief. So Mary was fine. She was a serious mess. Borderline personality, bipolar. The girl was really screwed up. But after Jesus was there, she was pretty much on target. I don’t know whether that’s because she found somebody who could actually help him. Maybe he healed her, literally, I don’t know what it was. But one thing is for sure, she became competent and she was with him side by side from that month forward for the next three years at least up until the crucifixion, is the one who was at the foot of the cross, which really was real.

She was the one who went to the tomb. She was the one who probably got married in Canaan, which is told in the story, probably to Jesus. But we’ll talk about that later on too. So Jesus now starts this ministry all along the way. He’s got to collect people who can take a sword. Peter decides he’s going to take a sword one day. Cuts a guy’s ear off, right? He cuts a guy’s ear off and Jesus is like, oh my gosh, okay, you can’t do that.

So Jesus grabs the guy’s ear, sticks it back on his head and says, sorry. I mean, that’s how Peter was. Peter was a character, just a character and loyal. But he also denied know. It’s like Peter, you’ll deny me three times tomorrow before the rooster wakes up in the morning, before the know. And people would say, well, so is that the Messiah over there? And he’d say, no, I don’t know who that is.

I don’t know who that is. Now, by the way, people didn’t have hats in those days. They didn’t have glasses. They didn’t have a hoodie, right? They didn’t have, like, the shirt like this. They all dressed the same. Everybody dressed the same. It was usually summertime, especially hot as heck. Hot, hot. And if you think of typical Muslim garb for women, hijabs and things like that, that’s pretty much how people dressed.

It’s really hard to write a book and to describe somebody, what they look like, because nobody knew. That’s why when Mary goes to the tomb after the crucifixion, and she sees Jesus come out and she says, I’m here to find Jesus. Have you seen him? And he says, I’m here. Like, it’s know. And she says, well, I barely recognize know. Well, why? Well, because everybody looks the same.

They had to have Judas point out who, you know, in order to capture him, because everybody looks the same. It was just wild like that. So it’s a different world, right? Nobody carried passports and stuff like that, so you couldn’t check, like, and see Kev’s ID and all that kind of stuff. So Jesus goes through, he starts to collect a group. We know that he goes. Three years later, he grows, he goes into Jerusalem for the last two and a half days of his ministry, and he immediately has about 4000 people.

We know he’s got 4000 people. It’s about the size of a legion. They stay outside of the Mount of Olives. He goes into the. And so it looks like we’re going to have our war. 4000 people against Rome. Okay, so this is pretty important, and I’m going to skip over lots of stuff about the crucifixion, the resurrection, all that stuff, Just to make the point. He’s got his army there.

It’s on the Mount of Olives. This is in Matthew or Mark, I’m not sure which, but it’s probably Matthew, actually. So they’re there. They’re ready to go, but they don’t go. So Jesus goes into town, and Jesus, first thing he does, he starts talking to people. He’s like, nobody recognizes who he is because he’s nobody. Okay? Everybody has this thing that he went in town on a donkey.

Yes, it’s true. Probably went on the donkey or two of them. There’s a great story in the Bible. He’s got one leg over each side. I have no idea if it’s real or not. I don’t even know what to do with. So he goes into town, he does some preaching, is probably the wrong word. Basically. He was in a bad mood when he got there. He was kind of disgusted by what he saw, which was basically, everybody’s paying homage to the Caesar family, Augustus Caesar and all those guys.

Now, at this point of life, and he hated it. And it’s like he really considered, like all Galileans did, he really considered Jerusalem to be his future home. Like, you guys don’t belong here. And as xenophobic as he was, because he didn’t want these people here, he didn’t believe anybody had a right to go into the Temple. He looked at God as a really important person, like a real big deal in his life.

It mattered. God mattered. And he just got too edgy. So he walks into the Temple on day two. Yeah, day two. And he goes in, and he sees people exchanging Hebrew shekels for coins with pictures of Nero on it and pictures of Caesar on it. And he must have just lost his mind, because if you’re a Jew and if you were schooled in a religious school like Qumran, if you learn the Bible, the Bible, all the books, it’s really clear.

You don’t make images of anything that’s in heaven or earth. That’s the very first commandment. It’s what you learn. It’s the first rule that you learn as a Jew, as a conservative Christian, too. Pictures of. Are you kidding? Know? No. Not possible. And so he sees all these people changing money, right? Like trading shekels. Just like when I go to Poland or if I go to Czech or wherever.

And you got to have some slotties to get around, right? It’s like, everybody wants your American dollars, but you don’t want to give it away for your slotties, but you have to trade it somewhere. So you go to a conversion store. Well, he didn’t like the fact that there was, like, if they just had gold coins, no problem. Silver coins, no problem. He wouldn’t have flipped out, but he flipped out.

And after he flipped out, you could just see the rage and anger in the story. He takes the very first. They call them money changers, the conversion guys. But he flips the tables over, and he starts flipping them over. And of course, they have to put it like, oh, gosh, here we go. Another crazy person’s coming in the temple. What do we do? Oh, take him. Take him hostage.

So they took him. And they tried to find the people that he was with and they asked him to say, who are you? Says, my name is Jesus. It’s like, okay, so who are you? And they said, well, who do you think I am? And nobody knew who he was. Like, nobody. And finally they found people who did know who he was. And then they came up with the idea that he was going to be a messiah.

That’s a bad thing, because the only thing that Rome wanted, the only thing out of Jews at this time, in 30, was they wanted the Jews to simply say, the Caesars are God. They are going to ascend to heaven when they die. And they were born virgin births, and they went to heaven. And that’s how you pray to. You can do anything you want with any other deity, but you can’t have insurrection against the government.

You can’t have insurrection. That’s the only thing they wouldn’t tolerate. And saying that one of the Caesars was not God, that’s it. And so Jesus was like, no, he must have said, and the Bible doesn’t say this, but he must have hinted, or somebody hinted, hey, he’s the one who’s supposed to be the Messiah this. Well. And then when Herod asks him, Herod knows exactly who he is.

Herod. Remember, Herod and his family are interwoven into Jesus structure, into his work, which is so ironic, because Grandpa Herod wanted to have him killed in four BC. Right? Okay, do you remember that part of the story? Right. So it’s so weird that it’s like his grandkids are actually integrated into Jesus family. And Salome was. And that Chuza, the guy that I mentioned earlier, Joanna, was a great friend of, is.

So Herod knows exactly who Jesus is, and Herod is not going to do anything with Jesus. It’s like Herod’s family and friends supported the ministry of Jesus. They supported the ministry. It’s weird story because it started out the opposite. Grandpa Herod didn’t want any competition, okay? But everybody else loved Jesus and they got along good with the Herods, with the royal family, which brings us to other stories for later on, too, but nevertheless.

So now Jesus goes in there and they take him, and Herod’s like, well, I got nothing. I abstain because he’s not going to put himself on the line. So he gives it over to this guy named Pilate. Pilate says, tell me about you. No, you can’t be the king of the Jews. No, it’s not a good thing. Don’t do that. And Pilate doesn’t want to kill a Jew in Passover.

Feast of unleavened bread. So he’s frustrated, right? And they do have an atonement option here where you can say, hey, you know what? Let’s just leave it to the crowd, because this drew quite a crowd. And all these people are learning who this person is. Jesus is here, and he’s got 4000 people out in the Mount of Olives that are ready to come like that if he snaps his fingers and the guys tell him, come, but they’ll die.

There’s 200,000 people in Jerusalem this week, right? So it’s not a chance. There’s no chance. So finally, Pilate says, well, look, there’s no way I’m going to crucify this guy, execute him for insurrection. I don’t see that he’s really done anything wrong. No. And so he says, we can set him free. You guys want to set him free, or do you want to set this other one free over here? I’ll give you a choice.

And they chose the other guy. Set him free. So he goes and they crucified Jesus. And that’s the end of that part of the story. Okay, so that’s Jesus’sort of life in a nutshell, right? That is intense. I mean, we’re talking about warrior Jesus. And then you brought up also how he didn’t care as much about his family that he was born with. How many times in the Bible is it described like that? And then there’s even that one passage where he says, some people think, I’m here to bring peace, but I’m here to bring a sword.

Sword, brother against brother, mother against daughter, et cetera. And I’m just like, wow, man, that’s intense. And so there’s also. It’s interesting. I talked to a guy in the UK, that man Ralph Ellis. Sure, I know Ralph. Yeah. And he brought up how his research shows some of the Jewish people in the biblical times, actually, they were in Egypt before that, and they conquered Egypt. And they didn’t leave as slaves.

They left because they got kicked out because they were more of a war tribe, not just like, oh, yeah, it’s cool, man. They wanted to take over anyway. I thought that was. No, Ralph is correct on that. That’s actually true. Because the Jews were in elephantine, right? We looked at that last time we were here, and they were in elephantine, and the Jews were, by the way, the Jews were polytheistic.

They believed in tons of gods, just like all the Greeks at the time. There was nothing unusual about that. They believed in Elion and they believed also in Yahweh, but they believed in a bunch of separate entities at the time. Sure. El created the earth and the heavens. El, all right, the Eloim, if you look at it that way, like Elohim, El was sort of like the demiurge.

Let’s go back and think about God for a second. What kind of a God was the first God? There’s two gods in the Old Testament, clearly. Let’s look at God number one. L think about, I don’t know, Adamant. There’s 25 stories that tell us all this, but he’s going to create the world and man and woman, and then he sticks them in the Garden of Eden. And then in the middle of the garden there’s a tree with a serpent.

That’s a very desirable creature, by the way, back in the day. And God says, now, don’t eat, I love this terrible parent says, don’t eat the fruit on the tree because then you’ll actually have a brain, right? Okay. And then Eve’s like, Eve is smart. She’s like, let’s eat the fruit because we’ll be smart and have a brain, right? So they eat the fruit, right? And I sort of take this almost literally, and I don’t put this at 99, but I put this at actually about a 40.

I can actually visualize and make this in my mind work. It’s not likely, but I can put it on the radar fairly high. So anyhow, here’s God. And all of a sudden it doesn’t take long to convince somebody that being stupid is not good and being smart is good. And so the snake is like, come on, this is not a big deal. Just eat the freaking piece of fruit.

They do. They realize they’re naked. Wow, that’s terrible. I’m naked. I’m naked. Who cares, right? It can’t possibly be that important. There’s nobody else around. Why would it matter? So anyway, so God gets really upset, banishes them, doesn’t let them go into this beautiful place anymore. So they have to leave. They’re up in Iraq at the time. This is what Iraq looked like along the Euphrates river, back in the, so they’re out.

So, and then God allows, like Abraham to Abraham, I want you to take your son Isaac, and I want you to take him up to the altar and I want you to kill him as a sacrifice to very, some people are like, no, the devil put that in there. It wasn’t God, you know, what? I mean, that’s what the typical religious person will say about that Passage. And dude, it’s pretty scary.

Please continue. That is what a lot of people will say, but I have read it and done it in the Hebrew and the Greek, which is, we’ll talk about that, too. But Abraham clearly was going to kill his son and he didn’t want to. He loved this kid. Jeez, it took work to get this kid alive to make him born, and so he’s going to go and kill him right now.

This just sucks. Every dad knows. It’s like, okay, my kid torques me off, but we always have the same. It’s like, I’ll kill my kid. You don’t kill my kid, right? I can talk about my mom, but you can’t talk about my mom, right? So he goes up there, and at the last second, God says, oh, don’t bother anymore. Everything’s fine. You are willing to do it. Can you imagine the post traumatic stress disorder this man has for the rest of his life? Right? Okay, but that’s that.

Let’s go back in time to Noah, right? So here the angels of God have been having sex with women. God is not happy about this. This is Elle, and Elle is not happy with this. Okay? Now, l tells us in these scriptures that he knows the end from the beginning, that he’s omniscient, he can read our minds, and he knows what we’re going to do. And yet l says, that’s it.

Everybody out of the pool. So all the Nephilim out of the pool. All of the watchers out of the pool. All you guys are out. Everyone. They had to go. Because you can’t really kill the spiritual beings. They have to just leave, sort of. And that’s another part. But then God destroys the whole Earth, right? God was borderline too. He has his moment, freaks out, destroys life on Earth.

And then he says, there’s a quote. It’s a beautiful quote. It repenteth me that I have made man. And then he realized that he wished that he had never made man. Kills all the people. But then he starts it all over again and lets everybody restart the whole thing again. And he puts people back on. But the angels are still there. The Nephilim are still here a thousand years later.

Pretty interesting to leave these guys out here. Just because you can’t kill them doesn’t mean you got to leave them here, right? You could take the problem away, right? But God doesn’t do that. Instead, he finds somebody, like a guy named Job. Job is this guy, he’s a nice guy. He’s a good guy. He’s a pretty wealthy dude. And this is one of the biggest books in the Old Testament.

It’s huge and found at Qumram several copies. It’s an important book, and it shows you the character of God. And it’s really interesting. And so the adversary, there was somebody who, they use the word Satan in the Greek, which was translated actually, over to Hebrew. And the word doesn’t mean, like Belial or Alzheimel or something like that. It’s not a demon or a devil or something like that.

It’s a prosecuting attorney. By the way, some of those guys are devils. It’s like a, here’s so the prosecuting attorney is know God. Why do you pay, Elle, why do you pay so much attention to this guy? Job? He’s just an everyday guy. He won’t stay faithful to you. He’s just a typical good guy. He says if we kill his wife and his children and all of his cattle, he’s going to leave you.

And Elle’s like, he ain’t going to do that. Go for it. Just don’t touch job. But you can kill everybody else. Wow. Think about that for a second. We’re going to prove his loyalty to God by killing all the people that he loves, his children and his wife and all the things that he has. And then we’re going to test him and ask him, are you still loyal to God? Of which Job said, yes, by the way.

Okay, we have a figure here. And by the way, that’s not the only thing either. It’s like, there’s a lot of other stories like this that are mind Blowing. That’ll just, if you read as you go through the old scriptures of just the traditional Bible, like what you have on your table and what’s in my house, you see this all the time. God is El is not a great guy, but there is a really great guy, Yahweh.

And Yahweh is a totally different God. And when you see interactions with Yahweh, you see some pretty cool stuff. It’s all different. But I don’t think who is God is on our list of things that we’re going to talk about today. But that gives you a little bit of an idea of who God was and why. It’s complicated to say that there was just one God when l tells you that we, like a bunch of us, made the heavens and the earth.

And this is why I think it’s real reasonable you have a lot of people on your show that very much are comfortable with the idea of extraterrestrials. And to me, because I started so young believing that heaven was behind the nebula of Orion, it’s like, to me, it’s only logical. So it’s like, I can’t even picture a universe without our galaxies or even star systems without entities. People, average.

I always figure, well, we’re here, we’re average. There’s terrible systems over here, and there’s some good ones over here where people are really advanced. It just makes sense that there’s people that are way more advanced than human life. I hope so. And I think that these are the. When people report that they’ve had an abduction, for example, it’s like my friends will say, oh, that’s just the craziest thing in the world.

I’m like, really? Okay. And then I tell the story about my grandma, and that’s different, though. An angel helped them. I’m like, really? What’s the difference between an angel and a dude from Alpha Centauri? You’re going to have a tough time figuring it. There’s. It’s all the same. It’s like they’re just extraterrestrials. It’s just part of life, in my opinion. By the way, I can’t prove any of that, okay? But I think there’s reasonable evidence that shows that every now and then, we have cool stuff happen on this earth that’s really fun to look at and interesting.

And I also think that these people don’t hang around as long as people think they do. And I think they go back to dinner when mom calls and says, oh, we got to get back into the Enterprise because we got to be home for dinner, Bill, so let’s get the hell out of here. We showed him how to make the pyramid. We showed him how to make it over there in South America.

We’ll see which one gets the top on. The ones in South America didn’t put the tops on the ones over in Egypt. Put the tops on. There you go. All right, so they win the prize. Let’s get the hell out of here. Go home. And I think that’s how it plays out. That’s my take this, by the way. I don’t have any supporting evidence for that’s an illusion only.

No Bible data for this. But although, if people ever get a chance to read Ezekiel one, you will read about the most insane UFO ever in the world. It’s pretty cool. Ezekiel One. So you guys write that down you can read about it later. Know, I’ve heard some people say that they think that the Ezekiel will could actually represent the Zodiac, which is interesting. Sure. But I don’t know.

I haven’t read it. It’s either a spaceship or it’s the Zodiac. It’s going to be one of the two. I think it could be both. Oh, I see what you’re saying. You’re saying the literal, the Twelve constellations and the stars it represents and the stars possibly be. Yeah, I don’t know. But I’ll tell you what, when you read it and you’re a kid, you’re twelve years old, sitting here at Bible Camp and you’re like reading Ezekiel, you’re like, hello, I got a question, guys.

Can I see that? Because that’s a UFO, man. That’s like a UAP, right? This is just cool. I’m like, that’s disturbing. That in Revelation, right? Anyway, so there we are. Let’s look at a slide. Let’s pick a slide. Let’s pick any slide from a deck of slides. Pick a slide, any slide. Let’s go. Here we go. Boom. I hope people don’t mind the digressions into. They enjoy that.

This is leak project. We’ve got them well primed for the digressions. Okay, now we’ll do a whole show on that. Let’s go. How Joseph became a non father. Yeah. Okay. This is pretty cool because we know so much about Joseph, people think we know nothing about him. We actually know quite a bit. We know from the Gospels. Outside of the standard Gospels, we know that Joseph was a pretty good guy.

He was sort of a volunteer priest at the temple. He actually did go to the temple and help out back in the day when it was not run by mostly Romans, and he continued to help out. He would go like twice a year for a couple of weeks. Every year he’d go up there, come back, and one year it was determined that he was going to have to marry Mary.

This little girl, this twelve year old who was at the temple, she was about to menstruate and she was coming up on this part of her life. And so they had to make sure that she was going to make it out of the Temple before there was blood on the ground. It’s very possible that that’s all that happened and it’s very possible that she ran into a guy there who the father of Jesus was.

Is not the question of how Joseph became a non father. Joseph was a dad of multiple kids with two wives. He had lots of children. He had James, which, by the way, that word is actually Jacob. It’s interesting how it’s translated in the Greek to James. I actually don’t understand how that’s possible. But it is. And he had Joseph and he had Judas and he had Simon and he had Solome and numerous other children with both of his wives.

So here’s this man. But when you look, one of the Gospels completely cuts him out. This is what I mean. Not the original writer of the Gospel, but like 50 years later, they cut him out and they started to make him irrelevant, meaningless. And they took Joseph and they dehumanized him and they basically castrated him out of the Bible. It’s a terrible thing. So it was really sad that he did not get the credit for raising Jesus and his family and his brothers and sisters who were really important.

Solome, according to Epiphanaeus, married into the family of Herod. Okay, that’s pretty important. That means the Herodian family was comfortable with Jesus’family. By the way, just because a Church father says that somebody married into your family doesn’t mean that somebody did. But it makes sense. When you look at the genealogies, the people in Joseph’s family, and the people in Herod’s family line, they have a lot of the same exact names.

Like exact. So it’s very interesting. There’s a lot of overlap there. So Joseph was a pretty good dude. And his brothers and sisters, they loved their brother. Joseph loved his son. Whether Joseph was the father of Jesus, that’s subject to a discussion. There’s basically a few possibilities there. One is that Mary could have been raped and she gave birth because of that. AnOther one would be that Joseph is the Father.

That certainly would be logical. Although when you read the secret infancy Gospel of James, you see that he was not happy about this. He did not like this girl. He was simply forced to take her on because he lost the. Oh, yeah, we’ll go to Mary in a second. So Joseph lost the deal. He had to basically take Mary as his betrothed and then nine months later they would have sex.

And that’s how you would become a person’s wife. There were no certificates of marriage. There were no weddings. For normal Galileans. When Jesus went to a wedding in Cana, it meant that it was royalty. Those are the only people that had weddings in Judea or Galilee. So Jesus and Mary went to a wedding. The question is, was it theirs or was it somebody else? Doesn’t really matter, because whoever he was invited and Mary, the mother of Jesus.

If you read the story, it’s pretty interesting. Mary. Mary, think about this. A woman from Nazareth, right? A woman from Nazareth who grew up in the temple. She’s twelve years old when she marries this 55 ish year old guy, 60 year old guy. The age difference is pretty dramatic, but more dramatic is the cultural difference. She grew up in a temple. He was there maybe three times a year for two weeks each.

So they go to a wedding in Cana and just forget whether it’s Jesus and Mary or somebody else, like in the Herodian family, just as likely. Or maybe Chuza or somebody like that. But it had to be somebody that was anyhow. But the impressive part of the story is not any of that. It’s really that Jesus Ma. Mary is sitting there giving instructions to refill water and wine and what to do.

She’s actually telling everybody what to do. Well, who tells everybody what to do? All the servants what to do. It’s the person who’s in charge of the wedding. So how is Mary, the mother of Jesus, in charge of a wedding in Cana? Cana is not very far from Nazareth. It’s right up the street, actually, right over the street. It’s a half a day’s walk back in the day and nothing but Mary is in charge.

She’s the boss, and she’s the one who’s giving the instructions on what to do. I think it’s wonderful that this is captured in the Bible because it actually humanizes her and doesn’t make her into this really weird kind of like she was born of a virgin and she gave birth without having sex. And there was no hymen when they checked. And that’s what’s in the. In the infancy gospel and also is it Gospel of Philip? I think both have stories like that to try to prove about 165 AD, that about 130 years after Jesus dies that this is indeed a virgin person here.

But truth be told, Mary mom was in charge of the wedding. And that gives us a lot of good questions to ask. That’s something your budy Ralph Ellis has talked about on occasion before too. Is some of those connections like that. He’s an interesting would he and I wouldn’t be on the same page on a lot of stuff, but that’s the truth with all kinds of scholars and people like that.

So anyhow, so that’s Joseph. Joseph was a good guy. Could have been the dad of Jesus. Could have been. It rates about a 25, I think. Pantera rates about a 40, I think a Roman birth, a Roman cult, birth. Like Julius Caesar, Augustus Caesar. These guys, how they were born, they came down as gods and they go back up as gods. Maybe one or two or know, I seriously doubt that Yahweh was the father of Jesus, but he might have been, who knows? I don’t know.

But I always put my money on Pantera’s first and then on Joseph second. And if nothing else, he was the dad that took care of him. The dad that took care of him. So what else we got? Fascinating, man. You got 43 slides on here. Where do you want to take it? Let’s go to genocide. Let’s go to genocide. Genocide, okay. Yeah. There we people. Now here’s the thing this is leading up to here is a really important concept.

People say, well, you know, there were eyewitnesses to Jesus. Well, I’m sure there was. There was lots of people who knew who he was. There was lots of people who had opinions about him like anybody else in the world. So that’s no doubt. So if Jesus said something interesting and everybody sort of knew he was a little special and unique anyway, like you don’t get told by your mom and have fights in the family about, oh, come on, Ma, that’s not true.

He is not some kind of a Messiah. He’s not going to be the Messiah. He is not going to be the king of this country. No way. And we’re not going to let it happen because he will die. That’s what happens to all the Messiahs. They’re all crucified or killed, executed by Rome or before Rome. It was Greek. So they were executed and they didn’t want that in their family.

They didn’t want anything harm to come to. So once Jesus dies, now you have people who see him clearly. There is three stories, four stories in the Bible, and another 20 out of the 40 Gospels have stories of Jesus appearing to people after he had already died. Okay, and so he goes out there and he’s talking to people. And at first, the only person who saw him at first was Mary Magdalene.

That was the whole deal. There’s only two people who in the Book of Mark. I think it’s kind of cool. It’s like people say, who wrote the Book of Mark? And I say, well, here’s the deal. If it was a guy named Mark, then when the tomb had a little boy in it, a twelve year old, a little kid, the only person that could have known that there was a twelve year old kid in the tomb was the person who was in the tomb.

Because the only person who saw that person was Mary Magdalene. So those are the only two people who could have known. So either Mark or Mary was responsible for the impetus for the Book of Mark. The Book of Mark spawned Matthew and Luke, but a whole bunch of others, too. Thomas and a bunch of them. And then John is a different story, an interesting story. So anyhow, it’s 30 point is now who’s going to write a story? People always say, and this is where Christianity starts.

Well, that’s totally wrong. That’s not even possible. What you have is you have somebody who is on the way, and we know from the gospel stories to pick up after whatever happened, happened with the resurrection. So it’s like the authorities are like, hey, get out there and go get this guy and make sure that he doesn’t do any damage. So Jesus goes back to Galilee and he’s there for about a year and a half.

It says 500 days. Okay, so he goes for 500 days. So he’s there for 500 days. Nobody knows that. Why doesn’t anybody know that? It says it right there. He’s there for a year and a half, like after he died. Okay, that’s kind of cool. So we know that. So nobody’s going to write a book about Jesus now. Everybody’s going to want to be around him and talking to him.

But I think at some point people start, there were educated people. Joanna, the wife of Choosa, could have written. Mary was definitely smart enough. She could have written Susanna, who was there. She was a sponsor of Jesus. She would have been part of a family that was educated. So there were people who could write, all of them women. The only male that was around Jesus that could probably could write would be Matthew, which was Levi.

They were the same person, and he was the tax collector. These dudes were very smart, very well educated, and in high position with Herod for mean. So they knew what they were doing. They had to do math, not just be able to read. So there were some people who could have written Matthew. I would argue that Matthew could have written Matthew, the book of Matthew. It’s possible Mark might have been able to write Mark.

Luke definitely did not write Luke. Luke did not write acts. John may have written the Book of John. I used to think that this book was written like 200 years after Jesus. I now think it was only 100 years. I think Mark was probably right around 80 or 90 AD. But let’s take what happens between now and then. Why can’t we have. Does Christianity start early? Well, here’s what happens.

30 Jesus is dead. Right. He’s out preaching again right away. So there’s no reason for a bunch of stories about him to be written because he’s there talking to them every day. He’s there interacting. You don’t write a biography on a person usually until they’re dead. Well, he’s not dead. All right? So that happens there. So now you still have Rome now to deal with. All right? In order for biographies to get written, you got to have them written by somebody, and you have to have an idea of who’s going to read your book.

Okay? So let’s call it Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. So if these guys are going to write a book, any of them, who is it going to get distributed to? Because you’re living in Rome’s, Rome’s owns Judea, and you don’t want a story about a God, about a Jesus God. That would be terrible. You don’t want a story about a Messiah coming up against Rome. That’s not really cool.

That’s not like, going to fly at this point in time. Go forward even 20 years. What about 20 years later? In 20 years later, the Jews and the Christians were expelled from Rome. Rome hated the Jews and Christians. So all of the people who were educated, the Jews that were educated, were all in the Roman Empire and not down in Judah. There weren’t really a lot of smart people down there except a Qumran and maybe the Roman priests inside of the temple.

That was kind of about it. And the political government. So there’s nobody really to read these books. So now what? So now, 50 AD, Rome’s Christians expelled from Rome and by Caesar, and they don’t want anything to do with them, they’re sick of the Christians. And so now this is where they started. The whole thing about, okay, all you have to do is just say that he’s God, right? And just that you believe that and that you worship, and you’re welcome to worship anybody else, it turns out.

I used to think that, yeah, it turns out that I was taught when I was a kid that the people, almost everybody was martyred. It turns out that wasn’t true. It was actually very rare, usually, because there’s letters from, I think it was pliny that wrote to the Caesar at the time, which I think was Augustus. And the question was, I got all these Jews that believe in this Krustos guy, and it’s driving me nuts.

Some of them want to not say that you’re the deal. Trajan, that was another one that you’re not the real deal. And Trajan wrote back and says, you’re handling it fine. Kill the ones that don’t want to go for it. And if they say that I’m God, then it’s fine, let them live. And that’s exactly what they did. But it was pretty iffy. So this is not a great, you don’t want to have books going and letters going around the Roman Empire, but we’re told that the Apostle Paul, this guy Paul, that he sent letters to all these places.

How did the Christians get there? Well, they didn’t in 50. They weren’t even there in 50, okay? There were still Jews. Some of them believed in Jesus as a Messiah, but nobody believed that he was God and went to heaven. Okay, so that’s 50. So now in 70, things really get hot, so things don’t get better. There’s nobody to read these books. The Christian Jews go into hiding.

So now it gets quiet. Are they what called gnostics at that time? Right. So in the Roman Empire at 70. At about 70, there were lots of Gnostics. The Valentinians. What was the group? That was the Archons. Oh, my gosh. The Setians, the Demiurge, the canines. The canines. There was the canites. They believed. What do they believed? The canites believed that the world was ruled by Archons and that Jesus came to save the world from the Archons rule.

There was the Canaites. Then there’s the Ebionites. That would be me. I’m an Ebionite. Okay, so an Ebionite is somebody who absolutely is Jew, absolutely believes that Jesus was a good man, tried hard to be a great Messiah, but we certainly don’t believe that he’s God or anything like that. So there’s that. And then there was other groups, like the Valentinians. And there’s so many. Like, there was the Marcionites, a great story there.

There was 20 groups. There was the civilists, who were very similar to Christianity, what Christianity would become. Yeah, there’s tons of them. There was tons of fractionated groups. There’s always been this division. There’S always been. Even thousands of years ago, we’ve had these separations of belief systems. Even though they’re similar, they’re so close, yet so far away. Right? It’s funny, because that’s beautiful, actually, because that’s exactly what it was.

The nuances, right? The nuances. And the guys who became, now here’s the deal. The guys who became the Church Fathers, who. It was like, you know, like, because some people would say in Alexandria, Alexandria, real powerful. Rome, real powerful. People in here would comment on all of these other groups. If you were an Alexandria, Egypt person, you like the Gnostics, you love them, they were great because that’s basically the part of the world sort of like, well, Turkey is where everything was.

Ephesus and Antioch and all Turkey, the country of Turkey today. This is where all the groups were. And both the more traditional, I guess, what would become Christians in the Catholic Church versus. But that changed a lot too. Boy, there was all this change along the way. But there was this guy named Tertullian in about 250, we’ll call it 200 and 5200, maybe. And he hates this guy called Marcian because Marcian is sitting there teaching, you know, the Creator is an evil guy.

The Creator was not a good guy. He’s the Demiurge. We do have a real good God, though. Yahweh, we like that. And of course, this is just floating through. Everybody else hates this. Now how much do they hate it? Sometimes when they hate it, you end up with your first gospel. Because here’s how Marcion either wrote or found or was given by a student of Paul. That’s what he claims.

He claims he was given it. I think he wrote Luke, the Book of Luke. But whatever. Here’s what we know for sure. Tertullian wrote four books, all of them against Marcion. Don’t believe Marcion. Here’s word for word what his gospel says and why it’s wrong, word for word. And I have the book downstairs. It was four books in the day, back in the day. But today it’s one book, and it’s just.

He outlines line by line all of Marcion’s Book of Luke. What turns into Luke and all. Does he have the ten epistles or the seven? He’s got the legitimate epistles, the ones that I think are actually the most likely to have been written by somebody who cared about Jesus, which he attributed that to being taught by the disciples of Paul. But whether that’s true or not, I don’t know.

I doubt it. But Marcion for sure, we know exactly what the Church Fathers hated because he quoted it. Four books full of hate. But they gave us all of the earliest copies of the letters of Paul. And they gave us the Book of Luke before anybody else had one, which is pretty. It’s a pretty good channel, actually. Kevin Hogan, channel. I like it. I do too. There’s a lot of good stuff there.

This is from the Book of Thomas. This was found a few years ago. And it was translated. These are two sides of a rolled scroll, which is why they look like the same. Right. Okay. But they’re not the same letters. And you can see that it’s written in Greek. You can see that. I can see that. And basically it’s just quotations from Jesus, but it’s quoted from the Book of Thomas.

It dates to 80 AD. This is 100 years earlier than anything in Matthew, Mark, Luke or John. 100 years earlier. So for you Christians out there who are conservatives, you just found yourself a piece of Thomas. Now, why is this important? Because he’s not in your Bible. That’s okay. Thomas wrote this 120 years before anything that we have up here. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John in 200 or maybe 175, but 200.

But this is 80 AD. It was dated to. There you go. When you subscribe, click the all notifications and see. Seriously, I wasn’t even joking. If we go back and look at some of your videos from 14 years ago that you posted on here. Oh, yeah. You look younger now than you did then. You can tell where the influence of Bulgaria is and where it ends right there.

Yeah, that was seven years ago, but then there was. Yeah, man. Anyway, you’re doing something right. So keep doing what you’re. Um. And then I’m going to show off your website Real quick. And here we go. I got pre manipulation and it is awesome. It’s going to show you stuff. Like you’re going to read stuff in there and you’re going to be like, oh yeah, why the hell did I ever think of that? The blog on the.

If you click on. I hate to do this. I’m not sitting here to shamelessly. If people click on persuasion, influence there, there are. Go a little lower, right below pre manipulation and. Yeah, right there. If they click there, this takes you to. We’ll see. Yeah. So this is all like for the public and it’s all false memory. There’s a lot of cool stuff here that was blast to research.

Every one of these, by the way, is like a book and not an article or a blog post. So they’re all about 2000 words each. But negotiation and how to change minds, how to be more credible. All of this stuff. And there’s hundreds. This website has 3 million words, I think it is now. So it’s worth looking at and checking and see what’s here. There’s some pretty cool stuff.

I’d be amazed if people just get through this one. The first page here, these 20 articles. There’s a lot of cool stuff. It’s really fun. And a lot of it relates to without influence. The Bible gets nowhere, Jesus gets nowhere, the story of the creators get nowhere, and Microsoft gets nowhere either. Nice. So our first gospel really was 135 AD. It’s the oldest surviving is the hatred of Tertullian, giving us what Marcion did in 135.

It’s just stunningly remarkable how cool that is. And to compare all the other gospels, our oldest copies go back to about 200 AD. There’s nothing before 200 Ad except for one this year. Would you go on the slides for a second? And there is a little bit of hope for all. Go right down a little bit. And to that right there. Yeah. Okay, so this. Thomas wrote this 120 years before anything that we have up here, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John in 200 or maybe 175, but 200.

But this is 80 AD. It was dated to. There’s a lot of scholars that don’t want to do that because then they got to redo the Bible because. Right on. I hope you’re enjoying the presentation. I know I sure am. And we’ve got another hour of epic information to share with you in this presentation. Part two is available on our Patreon page. You can sign up for a buck.

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