Jesus the Pharisee

The television-style series The Chosen depicts an ‘earthy’ Jesus with lots of humor. Resembling liturgical drama, like The Quran, yes, that’s right, as it was initially intended through the Hadiths. In its fourth season of episodes, controversy lingers through its ecumenical reach. He is exemplified by lead actor Jonathan Roumie as Jesus, testifying through his Catholic/Orthodox faith. While visiting the Pope with creator Dallas Jenkins, criticism has increased with the disclosure of some Mormon producers in the mix.

Strange that Dallas did not invite any Muslim consultant in his panel, like the Messianic Rabbi (who helps explain the two Pharisaical schools) and a Roman Catholic Priest, all included with the Evangelicals; thus, so much for its ecumenism, but a big hit with the masses, as the public gravitates to the dramatic and the series unifying elements. May the show deepen biblical literacy, for it moves ‘the heart,’ and hopefully one’s head’s back to read the New Testament text and seek to live by its transformative message.

One novelty of the series — among the other productions of the life of Jesus of Nazareth, which depict him more celestial — is his engagement between two historically verifiable schools of Pharisees, which the Rabbi consultant does affirm—known as Shammai and Hillel, which play out within the series and the drama. The latter aligned with Jesus’ teachings. The former was in control of the Sanhedrin and nationalists. The Sadducees inspired such nationalism through its political wing in a coalition with King Herod and by a terror wing of extremist assassin Zealots. Jesus recruited from these nationalists to renounce their evil ways; here, this ‘earthy’ Jesus’ pacifism finds traction in a realistic presentation that confronts the hyper—grace & faith only caricature of the proclamation of His gospel with His Jewish observance. 

Thus, amid the many strong words Jesus used against certain Pharisees, probably Shammaites, he most importantly told His followers to obey them (Matthew 23:1- 3), “Do what they say for they sit in the seat of Moses.” Still, conflations of legalists with hypocrite Pharisees permeate our understanding. So, going against those with authority in the Qehela (Cultivated Olive Tree) is a valid question, especially if Jesus was one of the Hillites or at least received by them. What gave him the authority to call out the clergy and highlight a religion, not an ethnic group framed as a nation? It seems that Jesus of Nazareth had no interest in overthrowing Rome.

Moreover, he proclaimed religion as a spiritual action. When Jesus stated: “Don’t do what they do,” he affirmed the Qehal Jew over the Shammuti school or show-off Scribes and Pharisees, including opportunistic sola scriptura bound Sadducees who had no desire for Oral Torah observance. After all, who was the Apostle Paul but a Hillite taught by Gamaliel, who indeed echoed the position of our Lord against the ruling Sadducees and Shammaites, perhaps in a time of political and nationalistic manipulation? Again, these groups received His harshest words. They all went against Jesus of Nazareth and his inspiration toward the mission to the lost sheep of Israel, which came in many varieties due to the diversity of such an ethnic outreach and the grafting in (i.e., Idumea or Edom) and eventually the Gentiles or nations near and afar a process that has happened since Abraham’s Hagar (The Ger). 

Shammaites and Sadducees most likely define the majority opinion of the Jew or Judean ethnocentric nationalists, mentioned in The Gospel of John, who stood against the old faith through political alignments and religious alliances, for their kingdom was the total of this world with or without Rome and where the Idumeans eventually transferred their alignment with power. Christian and ethnic Jewish nationalism is no novelty, and religious conscience is something utterly other than genuinely spiritual. 

Therefore, the impulse of the Great Commission, salvation for all peoples, was also nothing new; it was just ‘Great’ in scope, inspired and aided by Hillite Pharisees toward Paul in The Book of Acts. Jesus and Paul were not that different, contrary to popular opinion. They demonstrate that the New Testament, as a text of the Oral Torah, was recorded to create Hebrew believers and to be authoritative in doctrine. The context of the gospel points toward living as the righteous in the security of God’s purposes over earthly aspirations.

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The above comparision is NOT quite right, showing that post WWII Messianic Jewish and Hebrew Rooters are not the Qehela and should not be considered as an authority on Jewish Halakah (Law). Caution is required by Christian use of the term Notzrim in modern Hebrew.


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Jesus’ Spiritual Geneology

The Roman Church made it illegal from the mid - 4th century onwards for Romaniotes — Kione Greek speakers, a remnant that exists today after the Holocaust — to teach anything about Him, leading to the phrase “those who know don't say, those who say don’t know” among Jewish Gnostics, who differed from the standard label of serpent worshippers whose texts were plenty in the first centuries. 

After the first centuries, only Toshav Groups (proselytes), who the Roman Church also threatened, continued to look to such Yidi (Gnostic Kabbalist Jews) for guidance on the issue of Jesus of Nazareth, besides the 27 1st C Romaniote-language texts on his life and doctrine known as the New Testament, a Hebrew record also exists of his biography and teachings known as Hebrew Matityahu (Gospel of Matthew). Notwithstanding various ‘church fathers’ whose works were not authoritive, yet opinions and ones that various historians wrote more as theologies than accurate histories. The same could be said of the emerging Jewish Rabbinical reactions, except one.

The only narrative, yet obscure, surviving into the present, are a handful of oblique references to him as Yeshua Sar HaPhanim (Jesus or Salvation, the Prince of the Presence) in the Mishnah and understood in Jewish Machzorim (prayer books). Such a record stands decisive, more than ambiguous references claimed in the Babylonian Talmud that fuel today’s anti-semitism transfered into the Caliphate of Abbasid Islam, the creators of SIN (The Standard Islamic Narrative). 

The consisent Jewish narrative taps into his legally paternal Grandfather was called Jacob Pantera according to Epiphanius quoting Origen (who might have been confused by Celsus). His disciples were sent to deal with the followers of his step-nephew Plony Yeshu HaNotzri Ben Stada (son of his disciple Miriam Magdala and his step-brother Joses Pantera) during the reign of the House of Adiabene.

Hence, Rebbe Yehoshua Minzaret is not to be confused with his step-nephew Plony Yeshu HaNotzri Ben Stada, who has been written about with respect by various Karaites (textual Torah only Jews, like the Saducees) who opposed the disciples and apostles. These elements or character descriptions find a home in the Babylonian Talmud but not in the Jerusalem Talmud which came first. The massive Babylonian Talmud is not a monolithic document with its variety of opinions and typtically used to perpetuate confusion. Plus Jesus of Nazareth is not found there except the acronym Yemach-shmou YE-SHU and as a diminutive. 

Virtually all modern scholars of antiquity agree that Jesus existed historically. Jesus was a Galilean Jew who went through Tevilah under the supervision of John the Baptist and began his ministry. This other ‘Jesus’ shows up as part of his family and the son of Mary of Magdala. You see the conflations today that give fuel to fantasy novels like Dan Brown’s The Davinci Code?

His teachings were initially conserved by oral transmission, and he was often referred to as Rabbi, a title he forbid of other teachers. Jesus debated with fellow Jews on how to best follow God, engaged in healing, taught in parables, and gathered followers. He was arrested and tried by the Beit Shammai Sanhedrin, turned over to the Roman government, and crucified on the order of Pontius Pilate, the Roman prefect of Jerusalem. After his death, his followers witnessed and believed he rose from the dead. They formed out of the community and from various early church groups that eventually emerged.

The Historical and the Spiritual Jesus is Salvation

Jesus as the Second Adam: The Adamic lineage in Jesus' genealogy in Luke starts in Genesis 6 as the Sons of God resulting in a spiritually recreated seed. Jesus is teaching us we must be born again spiritually. John 3:13-17 contains the Bible's most preached verse, John 3:16. However, most totally miss the context: the son of THE MAN who comes down from heaven; thus, he is not there in heaven when Jesus speaks to Nicodemus.

 
The HaAdam of the Celestial Garden and the Earthly Reality: HaAdam brought Guilt, Shame, Fear, and Anxiety into the human race. The fall was both spiritual and dimensional. Within successive cultural groups and empirically verifiable today, one of the four takes a prominent role, not excluding the others as human emotions, at least on an individual level. Still, one of these negative emotions becomes the so-called ‘flagship’ of cultural DNA, collectively. 

On the flip side, another reaction manifests within the human action, as presented here: Guilt/ Innocence, Shame/ Honor, Fear/ Power. Then there is Anxiety, the former Guilt has an ominous psychological manifestation or better expressed as the logical destination of the Western Guilt/ Innocence trajectory.

Still, collectively, Shame/Honor cultures are significant and complex mentalities that are often mixed with the Fear/Power noted in tribal cultures. Religion, in a tribal sense is a dead end, for let the nations be glad! Jesus’ Great Commission transcends national exclusivity rampant today.

However, the second Adam Kadmon, the primal one — who restores the fallen image ‘is the Adam within Jesus of Nazareth’s Spiritual lineage’ stated by Luke, not HaAdam — emerges as salvation. First for our individual helpless state and for our collective repentence and cooperation. Illustrated in the past and needed today.

Matthew records His Davidic root, providing us our spiritual state and purpose as children of light in our identification with HIM.  — To all those who believe and trust Him—a spiritual narrative of the Holy of One of Israel and the main thread of the 66 books, redemption for a purpose! How this has collectively corrupted the Abrahamic Faiths demands we observe and return to the onset of the Hebrew Calendar with the Adam of Luke.

Thus, Genesis 4:25 does not discuss HaAdam, nor his wife Havah (Eve); instead, sets the stage for the Sons of God and their mission to marry the daughters of Cain in godliness and increase in righteousness to fill the earth. (Where do you think Islam gets such a missionary marriage concept?) 

Furthermore, Genesis 6, mentioning the Nephalim, misses the fact that they were already on earth. The human—angel hybrid interpretation is plain fantasy. Demons and fallen angels existed way before that time. Being Nephil is a state of jealousy and coveteousness with the stuff and era of this world. Obviously, such wickedness won out, for Noah was the only ‘son of God’ left as righteouss.

The Bible is one revelation, thus Christianity and Islam have a truncated framing because of their misunderstanding of true Judaism (Jew means a people of praise) and the One (Jesus of Nazareth) who fulfilled the Torah. Noah’s spiritual seed as family seed prevailed. Remember Shem was named after Someone! Think HaShem! So the ‘way of the Land’ another way to describe the concept of Noahide Laws (Acts 15 & Sura 42, Augustine in Contra Faustum) was brought back by righteous Abraham.

As an apostate of the Eber family, Abraham was called away again from their pagan ways.  Today all Abrahmic Faiths have ended up far away (to one degree or another) as obstinate religions within their interpretations, rather than proselyte/ pilgrim faiths grafted into a growing ‘cultivated olive tree’ based upon Jesus Christ revealed in the NT and (Romans 11) as chapters 3-8 reveal his spiritual power through His Lordship for our individual lives which Abraham typified.

Five thousand eight hundred years ago, God’s special revelation began after a general revelation, in which the wrath of God fell upon HaAdam and continues as Paul states in (Romans 1). The Bible and following the New Testament takes us out of this fallen world into the spiritual, not to be conformed to this evil age (Romans 12) to prepare for a greater age to come.

See the Reason for the Bible (Romans 9-11) Jesus of Nazareth, the eternal son, is the restoration of the spiritual image that we must express! —and Christendom (nationalistic appropriations) and Islam proclaim elements, yet distorted information from His historical place as exemplfied by the historic Abrahamic religion’s militant nature. The ‘cultivated olive tree’ requires branches from all peoples! Only Jesus of Nazareth and His Gospel for the nations makes sense to bring the glory of the Lord to all nations through peace with one another.

Again, this 2nd Adam father of Seth is not the same as the HaAdam father of Cain and Abel. For he is not called HaAdam in the original Hebrew which is found in certain Midrashim. (Correct Jewish non-Zoharist Interpretations). Why did the LORD put a mark on Cain and protect him? Do not avenge evil or murder with murder! Open your mind in reading the text. 

Back to the solution, the Son of Man! Strong’s Concordance # 5750 ‘O-wd’ translated ‘again’ skews the meaning as the word may also be translated ‘moreover’ or ‘furthermore’. Remember Bible translations are really interpretations. Use an interlinear and lexicon and work with the original languages.

Another question? Who was the woman? So notice, the verse is written from a heavenly perspective, and a way of contextualizing Genesis 3:15 (the proto-evangelion) and keeping the importance of the seed of the women and its iterations until the ultimate manifestation in Jesus Christ (Hebrews 1). Not negating its prophetic destination in Jesus of Nazareth as we must understand that the previous OT theophanies are evidence of who was to guide God’s people. But Israel wanted a King like the other nations (1 Samuel 8); a watershed section of scripture as no other.

Therefore the point is clarified from the teaching of the second Adam used by Paul for Jesus of Nazareth in (Romans 5) and (I Corinthians 15), and also found in the 1st century Alexandrian Jewish sage, Philo. A new creation obedient to God and his succesive lineage. This is our union with Him, as it was in the day of Noah; believe and follow the Lord Jesus Christ, not the negativity of HaAdam Sin nature.

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The Eternal Son, Adam Kadmon (primal), 

The Second Adam, Jesus of Nazareth

The Linage of Paul the Pharisee

“When we arrived at Jerusalem, the brothers and sisters received us warmly. The next day Paul and the rest of us went to see James, and all the elders were present. Paul greeted them and reported in detail what God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry. When they heard this, they praised God. Then they said to Paul: “You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews have believed, and all of them are zealous for the law. They have been informed that you teach all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to turn away from Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or live according to our customs. What shall we do? They will certainly hear that you have come, so do what we tell you. There are four men with us who have made a vow. Take these men, join in their purification rites and pay their expenses, so that they can have their heads shaved. Then everyone will know there is no truth in these reports about you, but that you yourself are living in obedience to the law. As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they should abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality.”  (Acts 15) Acts 21:17-25

The Apostle Paul’s arrival in Rome is without question, yet this makes him out to be a subversive founder of a new religion. Perhaps he made it to Spain as some traditions believe, a place where Sepharidim perhaps emerged from the Romaniote Minhag (Jewish Culture).  Rashi says the Apostles: “who purposely infected their culture in order to sway the Notzri faith away from Judaism (into Messianic Noahides) ; they themselves were not heretics and did so for the benefit of the Jewish people.” Paul’s impact in the Western Empire perhaps over-shadows his acceptance in Judea after the controversy and vindication of the mission he launched as being from the school of Hillel and Gamaliel. He went on to where he was most needed Rome, and not just to defend himself, but use those Romans roads from those he encountered under his lengthy house arrest near the area of where St. Paul’s Basilica stands today. Our Lord’s strategy, through Paul the Doulos (bond servant) to reach the ‘ends of the earth.’

So it seems appropriate at this point to mention even more sources from Orthodox Judaism which are relevant to The Way of the Messianic Hebrews. As originating among the Chazal (Jewish sages) from the Shimon ben Shetach Yeshiva following the majoity opinon of both Talmuds and the Teliya of Yochanan ben Zakkai (c.20-c.100) from whom it is claimed, the New Testament books were affirmed within his school of Pharisees at Yavneh (after the fall of Jerusalem) and then sent for the salvation of the nations, among them were Paul’s letters that made there way around and read throughout the empire. His major proclamation Jesus Christ is Lord!

Moreover, that Jesus of Nazareth is Yeshua Sar HaPanim and as the Apostle Paul calls Him continually; as Jesus Christ or Christ Jesus. This is notable for Paul’s proximity to the historical Jesus from Nazareth, as the Apostle does not elaborate on his earthly ministry but His exaltation as revelational significance. Something much more cosmic is transpiring in Paul’s mind. 

Such exaltation provides his apocalypticism and it’s scope, including the eschatology of death, as it results through Jesus’s cross and resurrection and must stand as a fact of its unity within Judaism. Paul put together Jesus as the slain lamb (1 Corithians 5:7) with the 2nd day of the Passover feast as it was always for the other nations or pilgrims as from the beginning of the revelation at Mout Sinai. The nation’s get the best part ‘as none of his bones were broken.’ Thus, Roman’s 9-11 is basically telling Gentiles to not ‘become full of themselves.’ They are just branches not the ‘Cultivated Olive Tree’ that Paul transmits.

Further along into the 2nd century, we should also consider the Christology of Aqiba (c.50-c.135), significant for his later  rejection of the ‘failed so-called messiah Bar Kohkba for the Sar HaPanim (the Prince of the Presence), yet Aqiba affirmed the spiritual lineage presented here and at the end of his life rejected the force of resistance. He is the watershed thinker and authority of Judaism and its rabbinical direction. 

Rabbi Aquiba’s student, Rabbi Simeon bar Yochai is also significant in carrying on the teaching, for he said “There is a perfect man, who is an messenger, this messenger is Metatron, the keeper of Israel; he is a man in the image of the Holy One, blessed be He, who is an emanation from Him; yea, He is HaShem; of him cannot be said, He is created, formed or made; but he is the emanation from G-d. This agrees with what was written in Jeremiah 23:5-6 of the sprout from David, that though he shall be a perfect man, yet he is ‘the Lord our Righteousness’ “ in  Propositions of the Zohar chap 38, Amsterdam Edition.

We should also consider the Piyyutim of Eleazer ben Kalir (570 – c. 640) and his writings which mention Sar HaPanim and the preexistence of our righteous Messiah. He continues the long succession into the Middle Ages for the tradition of Jesus divinity and His role in Christianity and remnants in early Islamic thought.

So, the Scribes and Pharisees who made comments relevant to Messianic Noahides was what Paul was actually establishing beyond bringing the lost sheep back and fighting Sadduccean and Shammaite Pharisee opposition that aligned and against his mission. 

Therefore, Acts 21-26 and its narrative of understanding within ‘Pharisee thought’ carried on down through the last two millennia and forms a shellshelit (spiritual geneology) of rabbis who saw the unique Jewish mission to the nations of Jesus from Nazareth while affirming the righteous Yeshua SarHapanim found in Machzorim (prayer books) who represents the theophanies of the Tanakh (OT).

Finally, the attack on Rabinical Judaism is not the majority report for minority opinion existed and were persecuted. This can be corraborated by the Trail of Blood.

The Pirqoi ben Baboi (8th–9thC.).
Rabbeinu Bahiya (1050–1120) 
Rashi (1040 – 13 July 1105) 
the Tosafists 
{like Simhah ben Samuel of Vitry (d. 1105) 
Rabbeinu Tam (1100 – 9 June 1171) 
Yechiel of Paris (died c. 1268) 
Moses ben Jacob of Coucy (fl.1240s) 
Judah of Melun (fl.1240s)
Samuel ben Solomon of Falaise (fl.1240s) 
the Hassidei Ashkenaz 
{such as Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg (1150 – 1217)
and other Rishonim 
{like Nachmanides (1194 –1270) 
the Meiri (1249 –1316)
Rabbeinu Yerucham (1290 –1350) 
and Ibn Shaprut (born c.1350) 
the Litvak Perushim 
{like the Rema (1530 —1572); 
Elijah Baal Shem of Chelm (1520 – 1583) 
Moses Rivkis (17thC.) who said: “the gentiles in whose shadow Jews live and among whom Jews are disbursed are not idolaters. Rather they believe in creatio ex nihilo and the Exodus from Egypt and the main principles of faith. Their intention is to the Creator of Heaven and Earth and we are obligated to pray for their welfare.”

Jacob Emden (1697 – 1776) 
Moses David Valle (d.1777) 
Baruch Fränkel-Teomim (1760 –1828)
Nachman MeUman (1772 —1810)
Elijah Tsvi Soloveitchik (1805 – 1881)

Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808 – 1888) who said “although disparaged because of its alleged particularism, Judaism….has been at pains to stress that, while in other respects their views and ways of life may differ from those of Judaism, the peoples in whose midst the Jews are now living [i.e. Christians] have accepted the Jewish Bible of the Old Testament as a book of Divine revelation. They profess their belief in the God of heaven and earth as proclaimed in the Bible and they acknowledge the sovereignty of Divine Providence in both this life and the next. Israel produced an offshoot [i.e., Christianity] that had to become estranged from it in great measure, in order to bring to the world—sunk in idol worship, violence, immorality and the degradation of man—at least the tidings of the One Alone, of the brotherhood of all men, and of man’s superiority over the beast. It was to teach the renunciation of the worship of wealth and pleasures, albeit it not their use in the service of the One Alone. Together with a later offshoot [Islam] it represented a major step in bringing the world closer to the goal of all history.”

Isaac Lichtenstein (1824 —1908)
Chaim Yedidiah Pollak (1854 —1916)
Judah David Eisenstein (1854 —1956) 
Pinchas Lapide (1922 – 1997) 
Harvey Oscar Falk (1932 – 2006) 

The Rabbonim of the CJCUC; and this project has also been supported by Rav Dov Meir Stein (d.2020) of blessed memory and other members of his Nascent Sanhedrin Project currently under Nasi Meir Hakak HaLevi a Chardali with the Mizrachi and Sepharidim who have little understanding of Yeshua Sar Haphanim and are under the spell of the Zionists.

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Simon Cephas - St. Peter & Rome

Rome woooes the senses with Matthew 16:13-20 etched in gold along the Vatican’s towering Basilica’s perimeter under Michelangelo’s Dome and Pieta at the entrance. However, have Evangelicals really understood the text? 

Here, accepting Simon Cephas' confession as the divergence between Rome and Protestants misses the Hebrew reading, with the insertion of Petter (Petra) — a pun often used in Talmudic discussions with Cephas the rock. Such imagery refers to the Maccabean religious absorption of Edom/Petra/Nabataeans now comprised of Herodians and Rome for Simon Peter who was standing before syncretism not contextualization at Caearea Phillpi all below the highest peak in the Holy Land, Mt. Hermon; another big rock ‘taking on a life of its own’ within the Jewish fables known as the Books of Enoch. 

God’s revelation impacts people reckoning with sin and idolatry back through the Persians, Babylonians, Egyptians and those of Ur of the Chaldees who made up Abraham’s apostate family.  Including Esau’s brother and law, Nebaioth (Gen. 25, 28, 36), meaning prophet, who is the Petter Chamor, from the firstborn of Abraham, Ishmael. Whose children are today sadly cast as some evil seed, rather they represent a missiological trajectory to redeem the mixed multitude. Through the promise of inheritance, Isaac carries the oracles of God for its revelational purpose, Paul’s allegory with Hagar and our Heavenly Jerusalem in Galatians 4 points to the destination of the seed of promise which is available to all people!

So Jesus rode in on a donkey when he came to redeem the lost sheep. Donkeys, needed no explanation from the Good Shepherd, but were slandered into a symbol of stupidity in the West. A very clever travel companion who instinctively knows the safest, shortest route, the Donkey is the only contaminated animal (Tumah, not unclean as it is normally translated) holy enough through Pidyon haBen (redeeming the firstborn offspring), as described in Exodus 13. Jesus spoke ‘the Petter pun’ on ‘Ceiphas,’ a hardened sinful man (Luke 5:8) who by his confession becomes holy as an exept Petter (firstborn) for the lost sheep in the church (Edah) and becomes one of its pillars out of the New Testement. 

Nevertheless, all things whatsoever a Qehel Pharisee like Paul bids must be kept and observed which explains Paul’s authority to rebuke Simon Peter for his ‘cultural ethno-centricity’ as described in the Epistle to the Galatians. Simon understood his ‘exemption’ to bring the gospel to Cornelius in Acts 10, but made a mistake for the perpetual tension that exists between Jewish Qehel observance and having become a Hebrew and following Acts 15 as discipilship. Thus his actions for not with fellowshipping and dining with gentiles in Antioch. The heavy yoke Peter mentions at the Jerusalem could be in view here.

RASHI (Talmud Commentator from the 1100s) states this about the Apostles “who purposely infected their culture in order to sway the Notzri faith away from Judaism (into Messianic Noahides) ; they themselves were not heretics and did so for the benefit of the Jewish people.” Even more conclusive is the Hebrew word Petur, meaning ‘Firstborn’ redeemed also implies ‘exempt’ which describes the role of a Petter Chamor, a Baal Teshuva who guides the Pilgrim Messianic Noahides like Cornelius.  Therefore, Simon Ben Jonah continued the tradition of revelation toward the nations. 

Possibly, the most enduring testament in Rome to ‘Simon St. Peter’ is the Alexamenos Graffiti on Palatine Hill. The academics claim such an animal god was brought from Egypt as an evil demiurge. Perhaps this simple ‘unclean, yet kosher’ donkey harkens us back to how missiology functioned through an intelligent illustrative animal and its allegorical significance. Finally, why the pattern of the cross etched upon the beast of burden’s back?  

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The most frequent commandment? SING unto the LORD, imagining forever!

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The Olive Tree & The Christmas Tree

 

2025 is the 1700 Year Anniversary 

of the Council of Nicaea, 

where Santa Claus ‘decked’ a heretic and 

where ALL of Christianity finds Unity

Did the Nicaean Council finalize the ‘parting of ways?’ No, but it kicked off specific persecution because its Christology was kosher: God from God, Light from Light, the same essence, substance or being as the Father, stands paramount.  Athanasius and Arius become prominent in our theology, evidenced by C.S. Lewis's introduction to a reprint of Athanasius 'On the Incarnation,' which demonstrates a reflection completely oblivious to Constantine's machinations. 

Does the humanity of Christ require a human? No, evidenced by Theotokos (God-Bearer), a term coined in the pre-Nicene era as kosher yet later developed into the ‘Mother of God’ like ‘begotten’ for the Son as a propositional creedal form that diverts from its Scriptural use, distorting their original meaning through human posits rather than than a respective genre found in scripture.

Since Jesus Christ was a “demigod-king”, why not Constantine? But his Arian team didn’t win in 325 as Homoousios prevailed! Still Constantine’s setback from his Arian stance, including Eusebius, was brief. The theological-political-ecclesial merger was set despite the ‘Kosher’ Christology. Moving to Constantinople in 330 and posting the 50 bibles in 331 he suddenly unleashed his wrath on the Holy Land, where he built the first three basilicas in 333 and, in the footsteps of Antiochus Epiphanius, Constantine compelled Christians to abandon Synagogues and forced them to eat pork at Pascha under the pain of death.

 

Nicaea exposes today’s Vatican II’s Jewish apology with the ‘Mother Church’ at the center, leveraging Evangelical accommodation and confusion under Rome's hegemony. After all, two of Constantine’s 50 Bibles remain today, thus, the Codexes Vaticanus and Sinaiticus formed a complete text 1700 years ago. 

The Old and New Testament divisions refer to Israel's covenantal reception, yet the titles force a faulty paradigm as the New Covenant was already given in Jeremiah after the coerced covenant of Mt. Sinai. In other words, discipleship is the ‘obedience of faith’ and the coercive law is for children. Didn’t Jesus say let the little Children come unto me, including the family dog who benefitted from their proximity like the Syro-Phoenican Woman; examples of Pilgrims.

Was the eventual Chalcedonian Christology purely revelatory alignment? I argue it was theo-poltical. Significantly, the ancient churches Armenia, Syria, and the Copts are Mia/monophysite, as is Ana-Baptist Christology, recognizable as Adam Kadmon (The 2nd Adam). These ‘nations’ never had militant expansionist ways after their Christian conversion.

These Christian nations’ Christologies align much better with Old Testament theophanies, where titles within Judaism and names such as Sar HaPanim, or the Netaiot, manifest as a mediator angelic being, one with the Father (Ein sof Ohr) unapproachable light, manifested as the Spirit hovering above the waters, the One who walked in the cool of the day, and the Root of David. 

Finally and why the geneology in Luke 3:38 stands so signifcant: Here the Son of God who with his Heavenly Bride redeems the Sons of Men from their fallen (Nephil ) Cain (Genesis 4:6) ancestry. NOT the myths of Enochian corpus distorting Metatron with The Two Powers in heaven controversy, yet where the victory of Jesus of Nazareth proves Him as the Christ and for which the members of the Sanhedrin tore their garments, yet condemed the innocent Lamb of God for US!