Who-What is the Beast V

Scripture is written in parables. The Torah, the first five books of the Bible, is writings about YAHshua, "Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. I receive not honour from men. But I know you, that ye have not the love of YAHWEH in you. I am come in my FATHER'S name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from YAHWEH only? Do not think that I will accuse you to the FATHER: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust. For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?" Jn. 5:39-47

Furthermore, the apostle Paul wrote that the things that happened to Israel were examples or types for us, "Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; And did all eat the same spiritual meat; And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Messiah. But with many of them YAHWEH was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. Neither let us tempt Messiah, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents. Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer. Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall, 1 Cor. 10:1-12.

One of the writings of Moses that people have not understood as being a parable is the account in which Moses struck the rock so that the people could have water found in Ex. 17:1-7. Israel had come to Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink (v. 1). Rephidim means "reclining places." It comes from another word which means "a bed, by impl. to refresh, comfort, etc. Rephidim was a type of the land of Canaan, the land of rest.

Water is a type of the Holy Spirit, "In the last day, that great day of the feast, YAHshua stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. This spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Spirit was not yet given; because that YAHshua was not yet glorified," Jn. 7:37-39.

Moses was instructed by YAHWEH to strike a rock with his rod from which water would flow for the people to drink (v.v. 5-6). The Hebrew word for "rock" in this instance is "tsur." Tsur also means: a cliff or sharp rock as compressed, a rock boulder, a refuge, as edge (as precipitous), (mighty) El (one), stone, strength, etc.

YAHWEH is called Israel’s Rock, "Because I will publish the name YAHWEH: ascribe ye greatness unto our Elohim. He is the Rock (Tsur), his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: an Elohim of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he," Dt. 32:4. They also called Him their Rock of salvation, "But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook Eloah which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation, verse 15.

Remember that Paul said YAHshua was the Rock that followed them in 1 Cor. 10:4. The wording in this verse could also be translated "for they drank of that spiritual Rock that they were following" or "for they drank of that Spiritual Rock that they were on the same road with."

When YAHshua (the Rock) was on the tree He was smitten, "But when they came to YAHshua, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs: But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water," Jn. 19:33-34. The blood that came forth from YAHshua (the Rock) was for our atonement. The water symbolized that YAHshua was now glorified and the Holy Spirit could be given and was given for the people who followed Him on the day of Pentecost as recorded in the book of Acts chapter 2. Exodus 17 is a wonderful prophetic parable of YAHshua to those who are able to understand (for parables are given to keep the mysteries of the kingdom hidden from those not intended to receive them [Mt. 13:10-17).

What happened after the rock had been smitten in the wilderness? "Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim," Ex. 17:8. E. W. Bullinger’s Companion Bible notes that Amalek fought Israel for the water, also noting that Amalek feared not Elohim (Dt. 25:18). Who is Amalek? The Encyclopedia Judaica, in its article on Rome, states that "Rome, in Rabbinic literature is Esau, Edom, Amalek, Seir, and Tyre!" It also states that Rome was known as the wanton kingdom being associated also with the pig and eagle among other things.

After YAHshua was glorified and the disciples were given the Holy Spirit, Rome (Amalek) came and fought with the New Testament Assembly just as Amalek had came and fought Israel for the waters in Rephidim. When Moses held up the rod Israel prevailed. Moses’ rod was also another parable or type of YAHshua. When YAHshua is upheld by the people, they prevail. But when the rod was lowered then Amalek prevailed. When the people are not looking to YAHshua properly then Rome, Amalek prevails. Bullinger also notes that Amalek came behind and attacked the rear (p. 97) which is a type of coming in later when the people are weakened. Thus, after a period of time, the New Testament Assembly weakened, as revealed in Rev. 2:4, "Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee because thou hast left thy first love." Furthermore, as time went on the disciples of YAHshua began to commit idolatry as Israel did in the wilderness, "But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication," Rev. 2:14. Such are the actions of one called Constantine the Great.

Psalm 80 is an interesting psalm which is related to the incident with Amalek spoken of in Ex. 17. Psalm 80 is a parable that is quite revealing when searched in-depth.

"Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth. Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us. Turn us again, O Elohim, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. O YAHWEH Elohim of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people? Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure. Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves. Turn us again, O Elohim of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river. Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her? The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it," v.v. 1-13.

Notice in the parabolic language that Israel is spoken of as a vine which is taken out of Egypt, but her boughs become like goodly cedars. The vine, of course, gives reference to Israel as being a grape vine from which comes food and drink (especially wine). Cedars are evergreen trees that grow tall and straight which is representative of the ways of righteousness and their heavenly purposes.

But notice that YAHWEH is angry with the prayer of His people. He has even turned away from them. Why? What has happened? The historical and Scriptural fact is that both the houses of Israel, the northern house of Israel under the leadership of Ephraim and the southern house of Israel (Judah) under the leadership of the Davidic dynasty, fell away from the true worship of their Elohim YAHWEH, to the idolatrous paganistic worship of the host of the heavens. Both of the houses of Israel were to be cast out of the land of Canaan and overthrown as a nation for their heathenistic practices.

Ephraim Israel was overcome and cast out of the land by the Assyrians in 723-721 BCE. Judah Israel was overcome and removed at first in about 587 BCE for a period of time by King Nebuchadnezzar, but a remnant was allowed to return later, to rebuild Jerusalem and the temple. However, their ultimate destruction and overthrow came at the hands of the Romans, the successors and inheritors of the earthy beast kingdom begun by Babylon.

Here is what E. W. Bullinger has to say about Psa. 80:13 in the marginal notes of the Companion Bible "The wood = forest. The Hebrew. word for forest here (miyya’ar), has the letter Ayin ([) suspended. This is the second of four such suspended letters (the other two being Job 38.13,15). Read with this letter, the word means "forest"; without it, and with an Aleph (a) instead, it is miyya’ar, "river". The ancient Jewish interpreters took this suspended letter as denoting that, when innocent, Israel would be assailed only by a power weak as a river animal; but, when guilty, it would be destroyed by a power as strong as a land animal. Until the Roman power arose (whose military ensign was the "boar"), it was understood as "river" (meaning Egypt); but afterward the Sept., Chald., and Vulg. read "forest"."

The boar of the forest was not only allowed to waste the vine (Israel), but as the wild beast of the field (earth), it was allowed to devour (eat) it.

What does this all mean? Is it possible that we might be able to identify this boar, what or who it is?

Now that we know that Psa. 80:13 is speaking of the Roman power whose military ensign is the boar, we can look elsewhere for vital keys of identification. The historian Josephus is an important key for he writes, concerning the destruction of Jerusalem, "And now the Romans, upon the flight of the seditious into the city, and upon the burning of the holy house itself, and of all the buildings lying round about it, brought their ensigns to the temple (Havercamp says here:—’This is a remarkable place; and Tertullian truly says that the entire religion of the Roman camp almost consisted in worshipping the ensigns, in swearing by the ensigns, and in preferring the ensigns before all the [other] gods.’), and set them over against its eastern gate; and there did they offer sacrifices to them, and there did they make Titus imperator (This declaring Titus imperator by the soldiers, upon such signal success, and the slaughter of such a vast number of enemies, was according to the usual practice of the Romans in like cases.), with the greatest acclamation of joy." (Wars of the Jews, Book VI, Chapter VI, p. 583.)

The Romans took their ensigns (which specifically included the boar) into the place where the temple had been. They sacrificed to these ensigns in the same fashion as did Antiochus Ephiphanes, but in a more powerful manner, for the temple of YAHWEH had been totally destroyed and now replaced with the sacrifices and ensigns of the Romans. The holy place was thus defiled and overthrown and remains so to this day.

While sacrificing their abominations in YAHWEH'S holy place, Titus was declared to be imperator (emeror). The emperor was automatically given the title of Caesar. The word "Caesar" in Latin is "Kaiser." The Hebrew for the word "boar" used in Psa. 80:13 is "chaziyr" pronounced "Khaz-eer’." The similarity between the words and the incidents involved are too close to be an accident. Notice the accompanying FIGURE #4 below.

The Roman emperor (Caesar/Kaiser) Trajan is depicted as offering a sacrifice to the goddess Diana. Notice in particular the head of the boar in the tree (wood, forest, miyya’ar). Here we have the Kaiser offering sacrifice to Diana under the influence of the boar (chaziyr/khaz-eer’).

Rabbinic literature confirms that Rome is Esau, Edom, Amalek, Seir, and Tyre. Rome was associated with the pig and eagle. Its leader was the prince, imperator, emporer who became the Caesar, Kaiser, chaziyr, or the man who is the boar.

Psa. 80:13 also speaks of the wild beast that devours the vine (Israel). The Hebrew word that is translated as "wild beast" is "ziyz" pronounced as "zeez." The wild beast, "zeez," is in the process of devouring YAHWEH'S people, Israel. What does this all mean?

Israel had turned to paganistic Baal worship which included the worship of the host of heaven. There are plenty of books and writings on the market which reveal that the Celtic people were descendants of the northern tribes of Israel. You might consult "One Man’s Destiny" by Dickey, "Judah’s Sceptre and Joseph’s Birthright" by J. H. Allen, "The Tribes" by Yair Davidy, "Symbols of Our Celto-Saxon Heritage" by W. H. Bennett, etc. These works as well as many others reveal conclusive proof regarding the identity of Israel.

Barry Fell, author of America B. C,. reveals, "Across the Irish Sea, however, lay a Celtic land that had never known the Romans as conquerors. It is true, as Tacitus relates, that Agricola contemplated adding Hibernia (as he rendered the name Ibheriu) to the empire, thereby to extinguish the last sparks of nationalism among the Britons of Britannia, who would no longer gaze with envy upon the Irish visitors occasionally to be seen in British ports aboard the ships of merchants engaged in the Irish commerce." (p. 120.)

The words Hibernia and Ibheriu are Hebrew derivitives. The word "Hebrew" in the Hebrew language was "Ibriy." It takes no stretch of the imagination to get the word Hebrew from Ibheriu.

The Celtic people were descendants of the northern tribes of Israel. The northern tribes were cast out of the land for unrepentant Baal worship. The Celtic people continued in that unrepentant Baal worship.

E. Raymond Capt writes of the ancient Celts and their Druidic priesthood in his book entitled Stonehenge and Druidism. He says, "It is of interest to note that the Druids revered a form of the cross. It was their custom to search diligently for a large, handsome oak tree, having two large armlike branches. When viewed in conjunction with the trunk of the tree they formed a cross. This "cross" was then consecrated by cutting characters for the word "Hesus," spelled "Yesu," upon the right branch. Upon the middle trunk they cut the word, "Taranus," upon the left branch, "Belenus," and over them all the word "Than." meaning God.

"Hesus" or Yesu was the Supreme God whom they worshipped as the great "All-Heal" and they believed in Him as the "Savior" of the world. In both the Druidic religion and the Hebrew religion of patriarchal times we can see a parallel preparation for the coming of Christ. The Old Testament prophets proclaimed that the promised Messiah would come as a babe, grow to be a great teacher, and finally be revealed as the Redeemer.

Through the ministry of the Druids, the same doctrines were believed, with the expectation of the same Saviour, Hesus (Jesus). In the ancient British tongue, "Jesus" had never assumed its Greek, Latin or Hebrew form, but remained the pure Druidic "Hesus" or "Yesu." Talisen, a Welsh bard of the sixth century wrote: "Christ, the Word from the beginning was in the beginning our Teacher, and we never lost His teachings. Christianity was a new thing in Asia, but there never was a time when the Druids of Britain held not its doctrines"." (pp. 78-79.)

Mr. Capt reveals more about this sacred oak on page 6 of his book, "In 1889 Professor A. T. Evans wrote (Archeaological Review) that Stonehenge was an advanced representation of sepulchral architecture, ‘Where the cult or worship of departed ancestors may have become associated with the worship of the Celtic Zeus; the form under which the divinity was worshipped would have been that of his sacred oak’."

Four cornered blocks, which were originally parts of an altar, were discovered in the choir of Notre Dame church in Paris, France, in 17ll. The blocks each had four panels on them. Notice FIGURES #5 and #6. FIGURES #5 & #6 are representatives of two of the panels on these blocks while the other two panels are not shown. The other two panels, however, consisted of the pagan gods Jovis (Jupiter) and Volcanus (the Roman god of fire). Notice that one of the panels depicts the god "Esus" pronounced "Hesus."

FIGURE #6 depicts a bull with 3 cranes on its back. The caption above reads TARUOS TRIGARANUS. Taruos is nothing more than the bull Taurus. Trigaranus has to do with the trinity. Esus (Hesus, Jesus), Jovis (Jupiter, Jove), and Volcanus were a triune deity of the Celts.

One of the Roman characteristics already mentioned was that when the Romans conquered a city, state or nation, they also captured their deities carrying them back to Rome and placing them either in the temples of existing gods or erecting greater and more elaborate temples in their honor. Rome, in effect, became the melting pot of the religions of the nations. When the Celtic peoples were conquered, their deities became prisoners of the Romans. When the temple of YAHWEH at Jerusalem was destroyed, the temple vessels and appurtenances were carried captive to Rome depicting the taking of the Elohim of Israel as captive also.

The pagans always depicted their deities as animals. One of the more popular representations was Taurus the bull. The Assyrians, Egyptians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, etc. all represented their deities as bulls. They were also depicted as lions, horses, swine, cranes, serpents and other creatures.

Psa. 22 is a Psalm about the Savior YAHshua's sacrifice. In verse 12 it says, "Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round." Verse 21 says, "Save me from the lion’s mouth: for Thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns." This verse would be better translated, "Save me from the lion’s mouth: For Thou hast afflicted me with the horns of the wild bulls."

The word "unicorns" comes from the Hebrew word "re’em, re’eym, reym, or rem." It actually means: a wild bull (from its conspicuousness). YAHshua was surrounded and enclosed with wild bulls. There is more to these meanings than meets the eye.

Notice that the Psalmist, writing on behalf of the Savior, speaks of the "Strong bulls of Bashan." The prophet Isaiah warns, "For the day of YAHWEH of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low: And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan, And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up, And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall, And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures. And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and YAHWEH alone shall be exalted in that day," 2:12-17.

There is an important connection between the "bulls of Bashan" and the "oaks of Bashan." James G. Frazer writes in his book, The Golden Bough, "Now of all European trees none has such claims as the oak to be considered as pre-eminently the sacred tree of the Aryans. Its worship is attested for all the great branches of the Aryan stock in Europe. We have seen that it was not only the sacred tree, but the principal object of worship of both Celts and Slavs. According to Grimm, the oak ranked first among the holy trees of the Germans, and was indeed their chief god...Amongst the ancient Italians, according to Preller, the oak was sacred above all other trees. The image of Jupiter on the Capitol at Rome seems to have been originally nothing but a natural oak-tree. At Dodona, perhaps the oldest of all Greek sanctuaries, Zeus was worshipped as immanent in the sacred oak, and the rustling of its leaves in the wind was his voice. If, then, the great god of both Greeks and Romans was represented in some of his oldest shrines under the form of an oak, and if the oak was the principal object of worship of Celts, Germans, and Slavs, we may certainly conclude that this tree was one of the chief, if not the very chief divinity of the Aryans before the dispersion; and that their primitive home must have lain in a land which was clothed with forests of oak." (pp. 291-292).

The land of Canaan was originally forested with oaks for Bashan was on the east of the Jordan from whence we get the statement "Oaks of Bashan." Abraham also sat under an oak at Mamre when the three angelic beings appeared to him (Gen. 18:1. NOTE: the word "plains" recorded in Gen. 18:1 is translated from the Hebrew word "elown" which actually means "oak.")

YAHWEH proclaims concerning the transgressors of Israel in Isa. 1:29, "For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen."

Romans, Greeks, Germans, Slavs, Celts, etc. were all involved in the worship of oak trees. Some of the names of their great oaks were Jupiter, Zeus, Taranus, Belenus, Hesus (Yesu, Jesus), etc.

It is interesting to note that the Hebrew word for "crane" was "sus." The 3 cranes that were depicted on the back of Taros the bull would have stood for the Hebrew name sus," which is the same rendering of the Greek word "Zeus." A crane flies through the midst of heaven, therefore they were hieroglyphics to represent one who mediates between heaven and earth. There was one crane for each god: Esus, Jovis and Volcanus. They represented the triune bull or deity that was able to bring together things in heaven and things in earth.

Sus, in Latin, means swine. Therefore, the Roman kingdom as a pig was "sus." The head of the kingdom would be the man who is the boar (Kaiser, chaziyr).

One of the chief festivals of the Celts and Romans was December 25th. "In Egypt, the son of Isis, the Egyptian title for the queen of heaven, was born at this very time, ‘about the time of the winter solstice.’" (The Two Babylons by Hislop. p 93).

"Long centuries before the Christian era, the 25th of December was celebrated as a pagan holiday in honor of Nimrod, the "virgin-born" son of Baal, the sun-god. His mother was worshipped as the "Queen of Heaven" with Nimrod as the (false) Messiah. Eventually, this pagan holiday (Christmas Day) was incorporated into the Christian calendar with Christian overtones." (The Traditions of Glastonbury by E. Raymond Capt, p. 85.)

"Mithras, identified with Sol Invictus, thus became the giver of authority and victory to the imperial house....the sanctification of Sunday and of the 25th of December...enabled Mithraism to prolong its resistance to Christianity." (Encyclopedia Britannica, 14th edition, vol. 15, pp. 620-621.)

"Therefore, the 25th of December, the day that was observed at Rome as the day when the victorious god reappeared on earth, was held at the Natalis invicti solis, ‘The birth-day of the unconquered Sun’." (The Two Babylons by Alexander Hislop, p.98.)

"On Christmas-day the Continental Saxons offered a boar (sus-Latin, chaziyr-Hebrew [kaiser]) in sacrifice to the Sun, to propitiate her for the loss of her beloved Adonis. In Rome a similar observance had evidently existed; for a boar (sus-Latin, chaziyr-Hebrew [kaiser]) formed the great article at the feast of Saturn, as appears from the following words of Martial:—"That boar will make you a good Saturnalia." Hence the boar’s head is still a standing dish in England at the Christmas dinner, when the reason of it is long since forgotten." (The Two Babylons by Alexander Hislop, pp. 100-101.)

It is also a tradition in America to observe Christmas day with a Christmas ham. Reasons for such a tradition have also long since been forgotten.

Isn’t it interesting that there are two messiahs. One is named Jesus. His birthday is December 25th and is observed with the eating of swine (sus-Latin, chaziyr-Hebrew), which is an unclean animal. The other’s (YAHshua's) birth date is basically unknown, but He is symbolized by the Passover lamb which is a clean animal.

If we take the name Yesu, the name of the Celtic deity in Britain and Ireland, and add an "s" to the end after the manner of the Greeks, we get the name Yesus. If we take the name Esus, which is the name of the Continental Celtics’ deity, and add a "J" to it, we get the name "Jesus."

To Be Continued…………...

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