EEE-HISTORY
I cannot help but insist that you have to respect Jesus Christ more, since I do so by regarding 2000 as A.D. 1 or 6 B.C. as follows (though Jeanne d'Arc might have regarded 1400 as A.D. 1):
SECTION I: Regarding 2000 as 6 B.C.
Let’s assume that Jesus Christ was born in 6 B.C. instead of on December 25, 1 A.D.
Then, tentatively assign 2000 to 6 B.C. as a modified year.
Then the history will be presented as follows with tentatively adopted years:
1943 (63 B.C.)： Pompey captures Jerusalem, and establishes Roman annexation of Judea as a client kingdom. King Judah Aristobulus II removed from power, while his brother John Hyrcanus II becomes king under Roman suzerainty
1962 (44 B.C.)： Julius Caesar murdered
1975 (31 B.C.)： Roman Civil War: Battle of Actium — Off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra.
1979 (27 B.C.)： The Roman Senate votes Octavian the title of Augustus. Augustus eventually assumes all authority formerly held by the Roman senate becoming the first emperor.
2000 (6 B.C.)： Birth of Jesus of Nazareth
2006 (1 A.D.)：
2014 (9 A.D.)： Three Roman legions were ambushed and destroyed at Teutoberg Forest by Germans under the leadership of Arminius.
2019 (14 A.D.)： Augustus Caesar, first emperor of Rome, dies. His nephew Tiberius is his successor.
2035 (30 A.D.)： Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Death of Jesus.
2069 (64 A.D.)： Great Fire of Rome, first Roman mass Persecution of Christians, earliest significant recognition of Christians in Rome.
2071 (66 – 73 A.D.): First Jewish-Roman War.
As you know, in 1943 WWII was going on; in 1962 J.F.K. was destined to be assassinated next year; in 1975 the Vietnam War was actually over for some time; and in 1979 the Cold War entered the last phase with the Soviet Union sending troops into Afghanistan which had the lasting influence even on the War on Terror 20 years later.
And, in 2000, the Terror Attack on Sept. 11, 2001, became unavoidable amid unprecedented boom in the U.S. financial sector, while the Dow-Jones average for the first time reached $10,000 level in 1999.
Following the above projected time series, during the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election, Jesus Christ could be regarded as having been born.
And, until 2014, we do not expect any drastic event or incident comparable to those in the first century of the real history.
Indeed, a moratorium of this age may continue until 2014.
However, after 2014 until 2071, mankind will face drastic incidents comparable to those in the first century of the real history.
That is why I am telling you to love the God but not money so that we can have the Kingdom of God instead of Armageddon after 2071.
SECTION II: WHEN JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED
The Book of Daniel is believed by many to have foretold the fate of Jesus Christ 600 years prior to the coming of the Messiah in its Chapter 9 as I presented the other day in EEE Reporter.
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Exact Year of His Crucifixion
by D Berg
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Prophecy:
"Know and understand this: from the issuing of the decree to restore and build Jerusalem until the Messiah the prince shall be seven sevens and 62 sevens (or total 69):
The street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublesome times.
And after 62 sevens shall the Messiah be cut off, but not for Himself." -- Daniel 9:25,26. (Prophecy given 538 B.C.)
The city of Jerusalem was completely destroyed by the armies of Babylon when Jews went into captivity and exile in 586 B.C.
But 133 years later, in 453 B.C., Artaxerxes Longimanus, King of the Persian Empire, gave the Jews the commandment to go forth (from captivity into the land of Israel), "to restore and to build Jerusalem".
We know his decree was issued in 453 B.C., and that Jesus was "cut off" in 30 A.D.
Therefore, if we add the 453 years B.C to the 30 years A.D., it equals 483 years.
Let's see now if Daniel's specific time prophecy coincides with this:
The prophecy predicted that from the time of this decree until the death of the Messiah the Prince would be -- how long? --"7 sevens plus 62 sevens" -- or 69 sevens.
69 sevens would be 69 x 7=483 years, would pass between the issuing of the decree to build Jerusalem and the "cutting off" of the Messiah.
And that's exactly how many years did pass between 453 B.C. and Jesus' death in 30 A.D.!
453 + 30 = 483
What an amazing exact fulfillment of prophecy was given in the year 538 B.C. -- almost 600 years before Jesus the Messiah was crucified!
It's also interesting to note that this 483-year period was divided into two periods: First period of 7 sevens (49 years), then a period of 62 sevens (434 years).
History reveals that it did take the Jews 49 years from the time the decree was issued to "rebuild the walls and the streets of Jerusalem".
Once Jerusalem was rebuilt, it was exactly 434 years (62 sevens) later that Jesus the Messiah was crucified!
Daniel's prophecy continues with undeniable proof that this Messiah had to be Jesus.
http://www.wordofloveforyou.com/Messiah9.htm
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Believe or not, the Book of Daniel looks like containing something extraordinary, though Jesus Christ did not specifically mention the Book of Daniel.
SECTION III: Mother Mary and Cleopatra
As you see, it is just 25 years before Jesus Christ was born that Cleopatra had died.
So, Mother Mary lived and grew up in the period of time full of memories of Cleopatra and Caesar.
And, most importantly, the God sent his Son to the world specifically in those years, which fixed the sequence of history as we observe today.
Put ourselves in the age before the birth of Jesus Christ, we could not know when He would come though the era of Caesar and Cleopatra was over while the first Emperor was inaugurated in Rome.
But, if we had been living then and be informed that the Messiah had been born, we would have understood how grave the era of Caesar, Cleopatra, and the first Roman Emperor was.
Accordingly, there must have been some linkage between the Messiah and those preceding historic figures.
As Alexandria of Egypt was full of Israelites in those days, it is not so absurd to assume that there must have been some connections between the clan of Mother Mary and Cleopatra in Alexandria.
It is because the Gospel deliberately associates the Holy Family with Egypt, though not specifically Alexandria, which even Egypt today is proud of.
( http://www.egypt.or.jp/guidebook/holy/holy.html)
Anyway, though Christianity shows a stark difference between Europe and the U.S. as to how Holy Mother should be respected, the both have never denied the genealogies described in the Gospel.
Who and what Mother Mary was, of course, are directly associated with who and what her parents were.
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Mary's Genealogy
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(2) Mary’s genealogy is entirely irrelevant to Jesus’ supposed lineage from King David. Mary’s genealogy is therefore not traced anywhere in the New Testament. In both the first chapter of Matthew and in the third chapter of Luke, these New Testament authors provide a genealogy of Joseph alone, although these genealogies severely contradict each other. As mentioned above, Joseph’s genealogy is irrelevant to Jesus because according to Christian doctrine, Joseph was not Jesus’ father.
I should mention that according to both Catholic and Protestant tradition, whereas Matthew’s genealogy is that of Joseph, Luke’s genealogy is of Mary. Although this tradition is completely alien to the words of the Gospels, it was a necessary doctrine for the church to embrace.
Nowhere in the third Gospel, or in the entire New Testament for that matter, does it state that Mary was from the House of David. On the contrary, Luke 1:27 insists that it is Joseph who was from the House of David, not Mary. In fact, Luke claims that Mary was the cousin of Elizabeth, who he says was a descendant of Aaron the high priest [Luke 1:5], placing her in the tribe of Levi, not David’s tribe of Judah. Moreover, in Luke 2:4, the author writes that the reason it was necessary for Joseph and Mary to return to Bethlehem was because Joseph was from the House of David.
There are a number of reasons why the church has a vital interest in claiming that Luke’s genealogy is through Mary’s line. To begin with, Paul claims in Romans 1:3 that Jesus was from the seed of David after the flesh. This has always been understood to mean that Paul was claiming that King David was the biological ancestor of Jesus. Although at the time Paul penned the Book of Romans, he was completely unaware that Christendom would eventually claim that Jesus was born of a virgin birth. The church desperately needed to have Paul’s statement correlate with the virgin-birth story. This was solved by insisting that whereas Matthew’s genealogy was through Joseph’s line, Luke’s genealogy was through Mary’s line. In this way, Jesus could now be from the seed of David after the flesh through Luke’s genealogy. Claiming Luke’s genealogy is through Mary’s line, not only solved the problem of what to do with Romans 1:3, but established a physical link between Jesus and King David.
Finally, it resolves an awkward discrepancy between Matthew’s and Luke’s genealogies. Whereas in Matthew’s genealogy, Joseph’s father is Jacob[Matthew 1:16], in Luke’s genealogy it is Heli[Luke 3:23]. By claiming that Luke’s genealogy is of Mary, Heli becomes Mary’s father and Joseph’s father-in-law. Problems solved.
Yours,
Rabbi Tovia Singer
http://kspark.kaist.ac.kr/Jesus/Gospel%20Comparison_files/Mary.htm
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Put boldly, if there could be a physical link between Jesus and King David, even Greek blood or Macedonian blood might exist in Jesus Christ through Mother Mary and her parents through another hidden genealogy.
In that case, Jesus Christ might have been remotely, if not by blood, associated with Alexander the Great just like Cleopatra was.
It is because today there is Coptic Church in Egypt.
It looks like very authentic as sacredly as the Vatican is.
It is because it is said that St. Mark established it.
Then, there must be some critical causation other than the fugitive travel of Holy Family when Jesus Christ was an infant.
But, remember this is just one way of respecting Jesus Christ in the history.
This is an act of neither conspiracy nor commercialism, though you can make a film based on this EEE-hypothesis (In that case, you can contact me, though).
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Ok, this is all for today.
Yet, how lucky we are! It is so, since unlucky 15 men were killed by fire in an overnight rest station of a commercial building in Osaka, Japan, the other day.
You may not die truly until 2071, since only God knows.
(If you heard this song for the first time while you were leaving a certain era of history forever, it might sound more impressive…
http://home.att.ne.jp/star/ELS/let.html )
Mar 10:1 And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judaea by the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again.
Mar 10:2 And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.
Mar 10:3 And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?
Mar 10:4 And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.
Mar 10:5 And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
Mar 10:6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
Mar 10:7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
Mar 10:8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
Mar 10:9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.