Christogenea, Matthew Chapter 3 Program Notes, 2011-04-29

One cannot understand much of what is going on in the New Testament without first understanding both the Old Testament and the history of Judaea between the testaments. Something that a full understanding of Matthew chapter 3 requires is an understanding of the book of the prophet Malachi – one of the prophets of the inter-testamental period. To have an understanding of what had transpired in Judaea during the period between the testaments, and what was prophesied by the Word of God concerning the events which were to take place both then and during the ministry of Christ, only then can one properly interpret many of the important events of the gospel. We shall also see here, from Malachi and from the Law, exactly why John was baptizing in the first place, and what was the significance of that baptism.

Christogenea, Matthew Chapter 2, Program Notes

II 1 Now Yahshua being born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herodas the king, behold! Magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem, 2 saying “Where is He having been born King of the Judaeans? For we have seen His star in the east and we have come to worship Him!” 

Strabo quotes Polybius where he says that “the priests of the Egyptians, the Chaldaeans, and the Magi, because they excelled their fellows in knowledge of some kind or other, attained to leadership and honour among the peoples of our times” (Geog. 1.2.15). Quoting Poseidonius, he says that “the Council of the Parthians … consists of two groups, one that of kinsmen, and the other that of wise men and Magi, from both of which groups the kings were appointed” (11.9.3). The Magi kept a guard at the tomb of Cyrus (Strabo, 15.3.7), directed the sacrifices of the Persians and distributed the meat from the altar, without setting aside a portion for the Persian deities (15.3.13) because the gods do not need meat, where Strabo also said that “the Persians do not erect statues or altars, but offer sacrifice on a high place”, a practice we see the Israelites chastised for in Scripture. Strabo also mentions his own eye-witness account of a “sect of the Magi, who are called Pyraethi (fire-kindlers)” who dwell in Cappadocia. They are said to keep an eternal fire, and to sacrifice animals by cudgeling them, and to carry about in procession a wooden statue of a strange god named “Omanus” (15.3.15). Among the Magi of Persia Strabo said that when they die they are not buried, but rather their bodies are left “to be eaten by birds”, and mentions that they were known to “consort even with their mothers” (15.3.20). 

Christogenea, Matthew Chapter 1, Program Notes

The Jews love to insist that the New Testament books were written originally in Aramaic, as does George Lamsa, who is himself an Arab. And they insist that Yahshua and His disciples spoke Aramaic primarily, and all this helps them to conceal their identity to the general public, and to perpetuate their lies. There is a preponderance of evidence in the New Testament itself that every book of it, including the gospel of Matthew and Paul's epistle to the Hebrews, was originally penned in Greek. There is also a preponderance of evidence in Archaeology that – while Hebrew was spoken in Jerusalem at the time of Christ – Greek was the common language of Palestine. Even all of the coins of Herod and his successors contained Greek inscriptions, and not Hebrew or Aramaic (Literacy In The Time of Jesus, in Biblical Archaeology Review, July-August 2003, p. 36), and most of the inscriptions of the period are in Greek, and no other language (ibid., and also p. 25 of the same issue). Dozens of second and third century papyri have been found in Archaeology containing copies of the New Testament books in Greek, yet no such manuscripts have been found in Aramaic. The earliest Aramaic (also called Syriac) versions date to the 3rd to 4th centuries and are proven to have been translated from Greek. (See the Introduction to Nestle-Aland’s Novum Testamentum Graece, 27th edition, pages 65-68). Aside from this, there is also a preponderance of evidence in the Greek language itself, and the variations which occur across all known ancient Greek copies, that Greek was the original language of the Gospel (and so surely Isaiah 28:11 was fulfilled) and there is no other which these Greek manuscripts could have been translated from. There is also the fact that so many of the quotes made from the Old Testament are from the Greek of the Septuagint. This note I have adopted from my notes for Clifton written several years ago, for his presentation of the Revelation series of Bertrand Comparet. It surprises me that Comparet has fallen for this Jewish deception. We must not. The Gospel of Matthew was originally penned by Matthew, in Greek.

Revelation chapters 21 and 22 – Christogenea on Talkshoe, April 8^th, 2011

In Revelation chapters 17 and 18 we saw a vision of the great whore, the people of Israel, joined to the beast, which is the globalist system of international commerce, one-world government and one-world religion organized and controlled by world jewry. We saw a vision of the collapse of this system, Mystery Babylon, which is what we await today. The proper answer as to where we are in Revelation is this: we are beyond Revelation 16:12, because the kings from the east are a great power in the world today, which our people are in awe of and are indebted and beholden to at this very moment, and we are also beyond Revelation 17:17, because since the Federal Reserve Act in this country, but even sooner in some of the other Israel nations, our kingdom has indeed been handed over to the beast, all the people of the earth being deceived by the unclean spirits emanating from the mouth of the beast and from the mouth of the False Prophet, while under the economic control of the jew. Now we await that seventh bowl, or vial, of the wrath of Yahweh, which causes Babylon to finally fall, mentioned at Revelation 16:17 and fully described in chapter 18. Once that last bowl of the wrath of Yahweh is poured, it is time to utter the call, “You come out from her, My people, that you should not partake in her errors, and that you would not receive from of her wounds.” The children of Yahweh shall at that time render to their enemies double the treatment they had received while they were enslaved to the beast. As the prophet Micah says, arise and thresh, O Daughter of Zion!