Bible History

A Little Bible History

We may all claim to descend from David through Joseph or another father we did not really have, we too. But we should not. See what happened to Jesus who did it.

The Bible says the Creator made a couple and promised that an apple-eater would be killed the same day he ate of the forbidden fruit - and Adam lived till he was 850 years old after that. Would you know!

And he promised land to Abra(ha)m and his descendants through Isaac - those persons never got it, or never got all of it. It is the same today.

He set up (institutionalised) goat tent service that was to last forever, but the solemn, ritualised goat tent service took an end when King Solomon had built a temple that his father David had prepared for. Then the covenant ark disappeared.

Yahweh "gave in" when the people wanted a king, but presaged repercussions. The king (as an institution) was to bring basic punishment to Jews [1 Samuel 1.8].

Yahweh later appears to have forgot he had killed off his lost sheep of Israel unless he meant the people of Judah - so Jesus said he was for the lost sheep of Israel largely in vain. [Matthew 10:6; 15:24]

"I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel." [Hosea 1:4] "I will crush you". [Amos 2:13] "Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again". [Amos 5:2]

"You are destroyed, O Israel, because you are against me, against your helper. (...) In my anger I gave you a king". [Hosea 13:9,11]

Afterwards, according to Jesus, he sent Jesus to save them. The plan failed. One may say it seemed doomed to fail from the start. Mishmash-ridden "strategies" aside, the net was cast over Gentiles instead and the commands or injuctions of Jesus that were for Jews only, were dropped. Only four requirements were left, and no to blood food was one of them, apparently en par with no to adultery. [Acts 15; 21:25]

Teachings of Jesus provoked the high priests to the extent that they decided to kill him, for things he said did not correspond to the Law of Moses, and they were not allowed to transgress, but were obliged to have a transgressor executed according to the Law.

Jesus first claimed his words and deeds were for Jews only. "I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel," said Jesus. [See Matthew 15;24] But no, the Father who allegedly had sent him to save his own, decided differently after some time. Now he wanted Jesus to be butchered like a lamb instead. After some time, millions were made martyrs, even though proper faith and God's power should have hindered it. [Matthew 28;19; John 14:12]

After the Lamb had been butchered, the Spirit descended on his apostles and from them to Gentiles, but the Law and sayings of Jesus were clearly dispensed with [Acts 15 and 21:25]. And Jesus says that sane people do not need him. [Mark 2:17; cf. Matthew 9:12-13]. In Acts 15 and 21:25, eating black pudding (blood pudding and blood sausages) was a no-no. But circumcision and Sabbath rest could be dropped, even though they were necessary for being of Yahweh's chosen people according to the Law that had mattered so much to Yahweh and which Jesus vouched for wholesale in Matthew 5:17-19.

As for the signs that are said to have accompanied Jesus, they were small in comparison to the scaring manifestations of Yahweh before Mount Sinai, on that mount, and afterwards. What Jesus really did, was to sabotage parts of the Law while claiming the whole of the Law was valid [Matthew 5;18-20].

After 70 AD, guys who in the light of Hosea were destroyed [and must have failed in their thinking] were shooed from tracts the bible says that Yahweh had given them and they never had had more than a fraction of anyhow: "To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates - the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites." - [See Genesis 15;18-21]

❖ Try to be strong against the faults of Jante and dangerous religious garble, for the welfare of the devotees and the others.

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