In today’s world, we have forgotten the art and craft of Typology. Typology is the “Types” and “shadows” which speak of similar ideas and themes told with different characters and names across religions and mythologies. Mythologists sometimes refer to a cycle of the Zodiac as “The hero’s Journey” which is as old as humanity and as far back as we can go, since it’s structure is seen in nature and on the Cosmic scale. That is, if you look up into the stars and observe their motions, you will observe a path, or celestial highway, which has the planets of our flat solar system travelling along it. This flat solar system made it appear to the ancients that these moving objects were actually alive and had wisdom, reasoning and personalities in their celestial orbits. Read Cicero’s: “THE DIVINE NATURE OF THE GODS,” and you will find that each constellation represented a god who lived on earth virtuously and then ascended to heaven. This was all about 40 years before the Christian Era. Astrology was no different from Astronomy at that time, and neither were they thought of as somehow separate from everything else. The ancients looked to the heavens for universal truths, and not scientific facts. Although their natural philosophers were what we would call scientists.
The New Testament contains a lot of Astrology. The gospel itself is a zodiac story, with celestial characters that made it into God’s history.
This information helps give the historical context for what we will explain next: Hell.
This important doctrine is the primary reason that Jesus Christ is worshipped, as he is taught to save us from “Hell”. In reality, the bible speaks more of saved from “Sin”, not so much: hell:
John 1:29 The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! (ESV)
Matthew 1:21 She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”
The word “Saved” is actually “Sozo” which refers to being made whole and healed, this is why Jesus tells people that their sins are forgiven when he heals them:
Luke 5:23 which is easier — to say, Thy sins have been forgiven thee? or to say, Arise, and walk?
Luke 7:22And he answered them, “Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, leperse are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, the poor have good news preached to them. 23And blessed is the one who is not offended by me.”
Jesus primary command was to follow him in these matters, and yet we do not see anyone (mostly) today being raised up out of “Death”. Symbolic language common at that time, referring to Hades. It is interesting to me that Christians today must change the simple language in order to clarify their own definition of what Hades is, instead of doing the due diligence of how the word was used historically. If we can define our terms accurately that would be a good start.
The Word Hell in the King James Bible is used for 3 words: 1. Gehenna, 2. Sheol, and 3. Tartarus. Tartarus: according to Homer, is a deep and sunless abyss, as far below Hades as earth is below heaven, and closed in by iron gates.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartarus
Hades:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hades
Hades occurs 11 times in the Greek Manuscripts of the New Testament and it is the direct equivalent of the Hebrew word Sheol. We have been told that Sheol simply refers to the “Grave” by those who have not studied parallel mythology. Hades and merged into Pluto, a Latinization of Plouton (Greek: Πλούτων, Ploútōn)[17], itself a euphemistic title often given to Hades.
In speaking of Pluto or Hades, Manly P. Hall says:
"The most famous of the ancient religious mysteries was The Eleusinian, whose rites were celebrated every five years in the City of Eleusis to honor Ceres( Demeter, Rhea, or Isis) and her daughter Persephone. " " Ceres carried 2 torches, intuition and reason, to aid her search for her lost child(the Soul) . At last she found Persephone not far from Eleusis, and out of gratitude taught the people there to cultivate corn, which is sacred to her. She also founded the Mysteries. Ceres appeared before Pluto, god of the souls of the dead, and pleaded with him to allow Persephone to return home. This god at first refused to do, because Persephone had eaten of the pomegranate, the fruit of mortality. At last, However, he compromised and agreed to permit Persephone to live in the upper world half of the year if she would stay with him in the darkness of Hades for the remaining half. The Greeks believed that Persephone was a manifestation of the solar energy, which in the winter months lived under the earth with Pluto, but in the summer returned again with the goddess of productiveness. "
- The Secret Teachings of all Ages by Manly P. Hall
This “Persephone to live in the upper world half of the year if she would stay with him in the darkness of Hades for the remaining half.” Is Key to understanding what Hades is.
As the IBV Preterists ask:
In 1 Corinthians 15, The living saints there at Corinth must have been asking Paul, “The dead ones are getting new immortal bodies when they are raised out of Hades, and you just said in verse 50 that we cannot take our flesh and blood corruptible bodies with us to heaven, so what is going to happen to us living saints at the 2nd coming?
In the Gnostic Christianity, they understood that the summer months and day part of those cycles represented the New Covenant of life and light. The upper half of the zodiac is above the horizon in which the Stoics thought man ascended, just as all the sun, moon and stars appear to ascend in Ares every day. Paul seems to be a Stoic himself in how he quotes Seneca. even compares the Corinthians to these elements:
1Co 15:39 For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish. 40 There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is of one kind, and the glory of the earthly is of another. 41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory. 42 So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. 43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. 44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
They lifted Paul’s writings from Philo:
"the Logos of the living God is the bond of everything, holding all things together…" --Philo 20's CE.
"And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together." --Colossians 1:17
Jesus himself is thought to have used the teachings of the Stoic philosopher Senneca:
Comparisons: https://dailystoic.com/seneca-jesus/
About Seneca (Stoic): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger
Some may say: “it’s a metaphor” and emphasize the words “So is it with the resurrection of the dead” as if Paul is only comparing the similarities for actual living people. The problem is that the Stoics like Jesus and those like Philo and Paul, took the bible allegorically. When a mythology like the Mahabharata uses metaphors such as (Like the Sun) it is well known that Krishna represented the Sun himself, and yet when the bible uses this kind of language, that meaning is lost. This would all be much easier if people were familiar with mythology and the ancient religions.
“She gave birth to Karna who was born with divine armor and earrings and was bright and beautiful like the Sun.” -Mahabharata
This is very similar to how the bible describes the “armour of God” (Eph. 6) which was “Clothing” or “sunlight” (Psalm 104). Josephs multicolored dream coat represented the sun, Samsons 7 braids of hair was the 7 rays of sunlight being cut off. Jonah was the Sun in the belly of the Earth/Hades/Whale.
Hades in the bible also, was a “Temporary waiting place” according to Preterists. It was designed to hold the faithful (Hebrews 11 YLT) until their resurrection “AGAIN”.
[Heb 11:12 wherefore, also from one were begotten—and that of one who had become dead—as the stars of the heaven in multitude, and as sand that is by the sea-shore—the innumerable. ]
[Daniel 12: 2 'And the multitude of those sleeping in the dust of the ground do awake, some to life age-during, and some to reproaches—to abhorrence age-during.
Dan 12:3 And those teaching do shine as the brightness of the expanse, and those justifying the multitude as stars to the age and for ever. ]
In the book of Revelation, or the “Revealing” which really could be said to be speaking concerning the changing ages of the great year, or the Sun rise, or Spring (Easter/East Star).
It was also Paul’s hope to be included in the same resurrection as the Hebrew one, it is not separate from the Jewish resurrection.
[Act 24:15 having hope toward God, which they themselves also wait for, that there is about to be a rising again of the dead, both of righteous and unrighteous; ]
In which the New Testament changes the theme of “Stars” to “Sun”:
[Mat 13:43 'Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the reign of their Father. He who is having ears to hear—let him hear. ]
This was to be at the end of the Wheat harvest in Gemini after 40 days/years.
So if it is true, that these were celestial elements being raised, then we need to show that they were stuck in “Winter”. Jesus says this concerning winter:
Mat 24:20 and pray ye that your flight may not be in winter, nor on a sabbath;
Mat 24:21 for there shall be then great tribulation, such as was not from the beginning of the world till now, no, nor may be.
The Tribulation the first century saints were said to have been suffering for “years?” was in fact a seasonally described. This is a clear contradiction in the dating of the books, if the tribulation was actually just the course of a year, then the whole of the new testament is also the course of 1 year. If we are defining the “Times” and “seasons” according to this “Winter” Jesus mentions.
Here is the thing: This fits the 2nd Exodus motif perfectly. Every year the stars go through an Exodus from what appears to be a sort of “UNDER-WORLD” or “PREVIOUS AGE” and they are carried as if on the “Wings of an Eagle”.
The 2 Jerusalem’s in the bible are therefore representative of the 2 halves of the zodiac. Being compared with the 2 mountains, the 2 Zions, the 2 Genders, the 2 Kingdoms, the 2 covenants etc. These are the Chinese Yin and Yang. Paul describes the audience as children or “Seed” of “day” and of “night” according to their works. The agricultural themes Jesus uses also suggest the zodiac.
If the book of Revelation is to be taken more seriously than Josephus, than we should know the allegorically we should rename Jerusalem as “Egypt”:
Revelation 11:8 and their dead bodies are upon the broad-place of the great city (that is called spiritually Sodom, and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified,)
Jesus fulfilled or completed the Passover lamb from Exodus. This is literally at the point of Crossifiction of Ares the Ram. The entire story is a retelling of a zodiac fiction. At the very least, Paul was aware of these things and knew their suggestion, but the repeated stories in comparative religion only serve to prove their structure in the heavens.
Jesus came preaching the kingdom of “Heaven” which is used as “Visible sky” in your bible dictionary. It would seem that Astrology was Jesus favorite subject, and his birth sign was the fish (Pisces), and his birth was witness by wise men who diligently studied the stars. Which means that “Wise men” were “Astrologers” and Magi.
The destruction of Jerusalem in AD70 represents the destruction of “Jericho”, “Sin”, “The Vale”, “Death”, “Hagar”, “Ishmael”, “The goat in the wilderness”, “The Firstborn”, “The flesh”, “The Foreskin”, “The children of night”, “Winter”, “King Saul”, “The wilderness of Sin”, “Laying on Ezekiel’s right side”
And afterwards:
“Resting on Mount Ararat”, “Resting on Mount Pella”, “Resting on Mount Olympus”, “Resting in Canaan the Promised land” ….. etc.
All of these events always happened according to the Calendar and to the periods of transition in Covenants, or natures. If we use timing to determine nature, It may be concluded that the Destruction of Jerusalem was not a historical event, but in fact, the destruction of winter.
I want to explain something else:
Hell is usually the word “Gehenna” in the gospels, but we do not understand what “Valley” means. Gehenna is from the word “Hinnom” or the “Valley of Ben Hinnom” in the book of Jeremiah it reads:
Jer 19:5 and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command or decree, nor did it come into my mind—
If it did not enter YHWH’s mind, why ddoes it enter ours?
Jer 19:6 therefore, behold, days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place shall no more be called Topheth, or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.
The word Valley is thought by preterists, to be a literal Valley outside of Jerusalem. The problem is that this label could be applied to any Valley anywhere in the last 2000 years. What is the usage?
Valley is the same word as “Vale” and at the Crucifiction or “Vernal Equinox”, the Vale is torn open:
Mattew 27:51 And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split.
What does this suggest concerning the nature of the Vale?
Josephus says the Vale has the 4 elements and represents the “Kosmos”. This is actually the same thing which peter speaks of:
2 Peter 3:7 and the present heavens and the earth, by the same word are treasured, for fire being kept to a day of judgment and destruction of the impious men.
The day of Judgement is therefore the “Vernal Equinox” and nothing else, in which the Vale of darkness is indeed torn open by the rising sun, winter is destroyed, and Man shall “Arise” in “Ares” even I can predict that.
[ Isaiah 25:7 And swallowed up hath He in this mountain The face of the wrapping that is wrapped over all the peoples, And of the covering that is spread over all the nations. ]
[ Isaiah 60:1 Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD has risen upon you. 2 For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the LORD will arise upon you, and his glory will be seen upon you. 3 And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising. ]
The best thing we can do for ourselves, is define our terms correctly, and ask how the authors of the bible knew what they knew. Is this all merely coincidental “Covenant language?” and is it just coincidental that these things happened “When” they did? Is it just coincidental that the numbers in the bible are based on the great year? (Another study)
I would like to encourage you to continue looking into the constellations and stars, this is where you will find your answers, eternal, and written in heaven.