The penultimate proof of this post’s claim is Jesus Christ himself, who was rejected by the rulers of the Jews.
Another individual whose preaching was rejected by the rulers of the Jews was Daniel.
We all know that Jesus accepted Daniel as Prophet of God.
“When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)” (Matthew 24:15)
What is overlooked is that Daniel was an outcast from Israel.
“And the LORD gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand…And the king spake unto Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring certain of the children of Israel…in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king’s palace…among these were of the children of Judah, Daniel…he gave the name Belteshazzar.” (Daniel 1:2-7)
The process of being made a citizen of a competing sacral kingdom – demonstrated by changing Dani-el’s ID to align with their god – disqualified Daniel from citizenship in YHVH’s sacral kingdom.
“He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.” (Deuteronomy 23:1)
If Daniel’s condition is an unknown factoid readily dismissed for its disturbing sexual content, check out Daniel chapter one where his status is stated no less than seven times.
Castration was an overwhelmingly common practice in ancient times. Its primary purpose in warfare was to eliminate potential revolutionary leaders from the conquered nation’s royal household, while preserving valuable ministers as slaves to the conquerors. Of course, the practice in general slavery also provided sex slaves for not only exclusively homosexual but the endemically bisexual men.
from the beginning of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, eunuchs came to dominate civil service. Eunuchs were appointed as governors of major provinces…served as the king’s personal attendants…The royal bodyguard which accompanied the king on his travels and campaigns was made up primarily of eunuchs. Many eunuchs served as army officers, the “chief eunuch” sometimes even replacing the king as supreme military commander on long and dangerous campaigns. Eunuchs were also sent as foreign envoys…Only one official, the castrated superintendent of the palace, had permanent direct access to the Assyrian king…
the tradition of using eunuchs as highly-trained and important officers in royal service certainly was passed on from the Assyrians to the Babylonians and then to the Persians…also the Bible relates how, when Nebuchadnezzar first captured Jerusalem in 605, Ashpenaz his rab-saris (REB: “chief eunuch”) had charge of selecting well-bred, handsome youths among the Israelite captives to be taken to Babylon to be made into court servants; and then he oversaw their care, renaming, supervision and training (Dan 1). When Nebuchadnezzar returned again (587) and Jerusalem was totally destroyed the following year, the Babylonian king was again accompanied by his “Rab-saris,” or chief eunuch (Jer 39:3, 13, NRSV)…
Isaiah addresses what would become a serious problem for these unfortunate Jewish boys.
“neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree. For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant; Even unto them will I give in mine [heavenly] house and within my [heavenly sanctuary] walls a place and a name / identity better than of sons and of daughters [can give them]. (Isaiah 56:4-6)
The belief system at that time held that a man’s life essence lived on through human reproduction.
So if a man died without having a son, that meant not only the end of his family line, but also an end to his human essence in some mysterious and undefined way…It was believed that having a son was the only way a man could ensure his existence after passing away.
This is reflected in ancient pagan practices of making sacrifices to the gods to extend the length, and improve the quality, of their ancestors’ afterlife.
One reason Isaiah addresses castrated men, and Jesus personally credentials Daniel as a legitimate prophet despite his banishment from the temple precincts, is that castration was so common that it simply had to be addressed directly.
Worship of the Great Mother / Mother of all gods / Mistress of all life dates back to the earliest pagan religion in Sumeria, with obvious alignment to Gaia, the female element attributed to creation, and the mothers of the hybrid giants fathered by the fallen angels prior to the flood. Early visual images, dating from the fourth millennium BC, from Uruk, i.e. before the Flood, and associated with Inanna (Ishtar), display three types of human figures: men, women, and what anthropologist Susan Pollock has called “genderless figures,” because they lack hair and genitals. A text dating from the reign of Hammurabi of Babylon (1792–1750 BC ) says explicitly that the goddess of Uruk makes eunuchs.
Worship of this female divinity by her Greek name of Cybele arrived in Greece around 300 BCE along with its sacred symbol, a black meteorite, in a temple called the Megalesion in Pessinus in modern Turkey. In 204 BCE, the Roman Senate officially adopted Cybele as a state goddess and brought her cult image to Rome.
Her priests, called the galli, were initiated during a sacred feast and ritual in which castrated themselves. During a celebration held on March 24 called the Dies sanguinis, or “Day of Blood” they danced wildly to the music of pipes and tambourines, and, in an ecstasy, flogged themselves until they bled, followed by a day of feasting and rest.
The signs of their office have been described as a type of crown, possibly a laurel wreath, as well as a golden bracelet known as the occabus. They generally wore women’s clothing (often yellow), and a turban, pendants, and earrings. They bleached their hair and wore it long, and they wore heavy makeup. They wandered around with followers, begging for charity, in return for which they were prepared to tell fortunes, while the head galli, the archigallus, is depicted wearing luxurious and extravagant costumes.
Interesting that Western society is becoming dominated by effeminate, self-imposed impotent/infertile men, who until very recently were considered socially deviant. Can we make the connection between the false promise of life made to the ancient galli and the calamitous death-dealing AIDS epidemic inextricably linked to the sexual behavior of male-on-male sex?
Currently not only tolerated but promoted by Christian countries. That tells us something about current Christianity.
Majority Muslim countries stand out for their lack of social progress on issues like gay rights and women rights. Generally, progress on such issues is more related to levels of development…The massive exception is places where Islamic political movements hold sway. Despite high levels of economic development, these places remain socially backwards or massively regress when these movements come to power (Turkey, Qatar, UAE etc…)…
At minimum, it is intolerable that we consider [having Muslim countries as] allies and sell weapons to nations with human rights records like Saudi Arabia.
Daniel is proof that salvation through YHVH’s Chosen One / Isaiah / Yeshua was not limited to being obtained through the Jewish rituals during Old Testament times.
Even more, despite being an outcast of Israel, Daniel was made a ruler in Melchizedek’s kingdom within the Gentile nations. Remember “My kingdom is not of this world?” (John 18:36)
“Then the [Babylonian] king Nebuchadnezzar…made Daniel…ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon.(Daniel 2:46-48)
It pleased [the Persian king] Darius to set over the kingdom…three presidents; of whom Daniel was first:” (Daniel 6:1-2)
Daniel’s “people”, while including his nation of origin, also included all the Gentiles in their four empires, AKA “times.”
Henry Kissinger, the most famous and controversial American diplomat of the 20th century, would be a good example of the equivalent role in our time. His ethnicity was Jewish, his nationality was German, he was forced by war to emigrate to America where he became a naturalized citizen and his circle of influence grew to include the whole world.
Henry A. Kissinger, in full Henry Alfred Kissinger, (born May 27, 1923, Fürth, Germany), American political scientist, who, as adviser for national security affairs and secretary of state, was a major influence in the shaping of U.S. foreign policy from 1969 to 1976 under Presidents Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford. In 1973 he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace with Le Duc Tho of North Vietnam for their efforts to negotiate a peaceful settlement of the Vietnam War.
Kissinger’s family immigrated to the United States in 1938 to escape the Nazi persecution of Jews. He became a naturalized citizen in 1943. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and in the postwar U.S. military government of Germany. After leaving the service, he entered Harvard University, where he received a B.A. (1950) and a Ph.D. (1954). In 1954 he joined the faculty as an instructor, becoming professor of government in 1962 and director of the Defense Studies Program from 1959 to 1969. He also served as a consultant on security matters to various U.S. agencies from 1955 to 1968, spanning the administrations of Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson. Kissinger’s Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy (1957) established him as an authority on U.S. strategic policy…He eventually came to serve as head of the National Security Council (1969–75) and as secretary of state (September 1973–January 20, 1977).
We can replace “Kissinger” with “Daniel” to appreciate Daniel’s determination to exercise Israel’s power through their God-King over the entire reach of his political influence.
Another comparison with Kissinger is that Kissinger’s exercise of power was limited by his inability to become President of the United States because he was not a citizen by birth.
What most people breeze right over when reading Daniel is that the Mosaic rituals and sacraments and appointed positions and ceremonies are SO important AND permanent throughout time and eternity that any aberration from fulfilling and upholding the Jewish them must be justified by referencing back to God’s word.
Once we understand this we get a whole new perspective on his prophecies to the Gentile nations. They are all based on the Law of Moses.
“And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to
- the house [blood dynasty] of Jacob,
- and tell [another entity] the [adopted] children of Israel…
IF ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people…And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.” (Exodus 19:3-6)
And likewise Paul’s teachings.
- “they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
- Neither, because they are the seed of [the Hebrew] Abraham, are they all children…
That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed…Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles...they be called the children of the living God.” (Romans 9:6-8, 24-26)
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