Thinking About the Reasoning
Why Did We Start All This?
Why go through all this? Doesn't the Old Testament Tanakh & New Testament Covenant give you everything you need to be saved?
Yes, they do but as is clear with the struggle of the Apostles in multiple instances people have a hard time digesting, understanding or implementing the good news and that was in a time and place where the context was current and in their own language or vernacular of idioms and turns of phrase. Add two thousand years, at least one language shift if not two and centuries of leavening from other sources and it gets a bit opaque to even theology students let alone everyday followers who don't feel like they could even begin to unravel all the literary knots involved.
So people go through the motions of understanding, they nod along to this or that sermon, and sometimes turn to highly confident but very simplistic preachers to try to fill that hole of understanding they know they have. That isn't what this was meant to be like and when you add into it centuries of human agenda in terms of politics, economics, fear, and just history the message gets muddled at best and often times fully contradictory and confusing. It shouldn't be that hard to understand and really isn't but like anything worthwhile takes time, effort and understanding of a world long gone and the realization that you will never understand everything and that is partly by design of Father but much of it is clearer once you learn to think like a 1st century BC Hebrew, especially not a Pharisaic or Sadducitic Hebrew.
Are you positive you are correct?
This is something that in the early years of forming this bothered us greatly, we didn't want to be wrong, we absolutely didn't want to lead others in the wrong direction and spent a long time just digging deeper and researching more with other groups that were doing the same thing. While not unequivocally positive we are 100% correct on anything and that is before you take into consideration human inability to keep every single detail top of mind we and many many other groups of a similar pursuit feel this is a very real and key component to the faith that we have turned our backs to or buried for millennia. We tried to talk to various Churches about this even after being told by others that Churches wouldn't want to touch any of this largely, and they were not wrong.
Churches did not like it, for many reasons from amillennialism, to being too specific on certain topics to other issues. There are aspects to running a profitable self sustaining church that are apparently anathema to this message, and any respectable church isn't going to risk stability and cash flow on debate they feel will lead to conflict and people leaving and we were told that about something as basic as historical details about Hebrew life, let alone any material not 100% sourced from exactly 66 books of the Bible.
So why should we spend any time going over all this?
That answer is clear once you start telling people some of the details and watch the puzzle peices slot together in their heads in real time. For example:
Have you ever wondered why the Gospel of John is so different from the other synoptic Gospels?
Have you ever wondered why John the Baptist asked should we expect another, or why in Matthew 11:4-5 (and Luke) Jesus said to tell John the Baptist that the "the blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them."?
Have you ever wondered why they keep saying the phrase "End of the age"?
Have you ever wondered how the Babylonian Magi or Simeon knew this was the Messiah's birthdate?
Why do the Jewish year dates seem so odd?
In Synopsys
All of these and more have explanation in the Final Jubilee framework, are they all 100% correct? Most assuredly not, Father doesn't show his entire plan and often tells the truth in a way to mislead certain groups so nothing is fully sharp and clear till it has been accomplished. That said we very much do not feel this is even 50% off the target. Studying the bible, both Tanakh and New Covenant plus a few other books is time well spent and having a clearer picture of the history surrounding them and the language implications pays dividends to your faith and walk.
It isn't a stretch to say the end is near, that Israel is working towards its climatic days foretold millennia ago and the days of Jacob's troubles are swiftly approaching in most people's minds. The arguments are more timescale and markers or in the case of many Churches any chiliastic belief in a literal one thousand year reign of Messiah on earth. We are sharing what we have found, what others have found, and hope it adds value and clarity in days where increasingly it seems less and less clarity is to be found.
Post Script
To answer the questions we posed earlier that many have wondered over the years:
- The Book of John is different because John came from a different background, we make the case it was the same background as John the Baptist; an Essene background that was coated in Chiastic writings, The Ages of God, people in white clothing and more.
- John asked these things because he wondered if there was to be a Messiah ben David after Jesus and encryptedly answered quoting both Isaiah [Isaiah 35:5-6] and the Essenes writings about the Diseased and Dead. Basically telling John to worry not.
- The end of the Age as mentioned above is referencing the Ages of God that the Essenes taught about, the Pharisees derided, the School of Elijah wrote about.
- The Babylonian Magi knew the writings of Daniel, the prophecy dating the time before the Messiah and the astrological markers that are mentioned in Revelation [Revelation 12:1].
- The Jewish dates shift and change in places conflicting with dates in the bible most likely stemming from the desire after the Council of Yavneh to buy more time for the Messiah to arrive and fulfill the prophecy since there was no way in their mind they helped to kill him in the form of Yeshua. This is clear in the Rabbinical time periods mentioned in Seder Eliyahu.
-The Tutor
Read "John the Apostle"
To learn more about just how John writes.
Read "John the Baptist"
To learn about how John the Baptist got his call to make straight the path.