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From Serapis to Jesus; An excerpt from To Water Instead of Blood: The Story of Serapis to Jesus.

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Seventy years after the destruction of the First Temple in Jerusalem, and exile of the Jews to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar, Cyrus the King of Persia is alleged to have said in 515 BCE, "The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has appointed me to build a temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah. Anyone of his people among you, may his god be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem in Judah and build the temple of the LORD, the God of Israel, the god who is in Jerusalem. And the people of any place where survivors may now be living are to provide him with silver and gold, with goods and livestock, and with freewill offerings for the temple of God in Jerusalem."

The stage was set for greed and financial exploitation of the Jews for the next 545 years. They became slaves of their own religion and its Aaronic leaders, for it was the Levite line of Aaron who would gather the wealth of Israel and create a slave society of Jewish poor. Jesus, first High Priest of the Second Temple and son of Joseph, had cut a deal with Cyrus, which released the Jews from their captivity in Babylon; so in one sense, he had saved the Jews, but was the eventual cost in human suffering worth it?

Finally, in 130 CE, one hundred years after Spartacus had demonstrated to Rome and to Israel that the poorer man would no longer tolerate human exploitation, an extraordinary group of Jews took the lead to save the Jews from Second Temple greed and financial exploitation. John ben Zacharias and Jesus ben Hananyah (when translated this means 'Jesus, son of merciful and compassionate God') led the way. They devised a plan that would replace burnt offerings and male penis mutilation (circumcision), known as Jewish Blood Rites, as a new covenant with the Jewish god. It was decided that a Rabbinic form of Judaism, one that practiced deeds of loving kindness, would replace Jewish Blood...

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