Seven Bible Wonders - Beyond Belief - E-book - ePub

In 1961 President John F Kennedy forecast that America would put a man on the moon before the end of the decade. His prediction came true because there were the engineers to design the rocket and capsule and the scientists to mathematically plot out the route through space and time within the laws of physics. However, long before JFK, the biblical prophets had predicted the coming of a Messiah at the time of a bright star and said that he would open up a gateway to the kingdom of heaven.
That may have seemed like a tall order in those primitive times but it can now be shown that the prophets had also the engineers and scientists to plot out the gateway routes through time and space. Their ambitious program extended far beyond the nearby moon, for those astronomers theoretically mapped out the whole planetary mechanics of the solar system and went beyond to extend up to the constellations of the zodiac.
The prediction of a Messiah had set the tone of expectation in the Old Testament and it was taken by the faithful as God sending a powerful leader like David or Solomon who would restore the Jews to their past glory. Such a liberator may well have been on the minds of the prophets who witnessed the oppression of their brethren firsthand but they also had another more divine agenda. This was to see if they could ease the shocking finality of death with all it trauma for the departing souls and their families.
Those seers would have known how the Egyptians believed that their dead Pharaohs were ferried across the great divide to a divine kingdom up there in the great river of the Milky Way in the heavens. If the same departure from this life could be availed of by mere mortals it would ease the burdens of strife and misery on earth. The prophets obviously prayed for divine intervention and somehow it came about that God would send his only son on a mission here on earth, which would revolutionize civilizations whole existence.
This Messiah would preach of love and justice, heal the sick and spread peace throughout the land. But his foremost mission was to open up a gateway to heaven in the afterlife and so overcome the clutches of the grim reaper waiting at the graveside. In preparing the path for the coming of a Messiah the prophets cast a mantle over the future generations and predicted he would arrive at the time of a bright star over Bethlehem.
Nothing could be more sacred, for God would send his only son as the promised Messiah. Building on the prediction the prophets laid down red letter dates upon which, a pantheon of biblical superstars were introduced. This alternative story was without saints or serpents, but instead there were milestones laid along the path for the redeemer in order to authenticate his arrival at the end of days. Behind the scenes the prophets employed a mysterious calendar of almost impossible intricacy, which gave them the power of determination.
The heavens were their dominion and they had the ability to forecast the unfolding of orchestrated events. They prepared the audience with the confluence of special indicators, signs or portents. Those signs were generally celestial and created a sense of divine connection. It imbued the character with a mystique or aura and culminated with the birth of Jesus, and his receipt of the royal ointment from the Magi.
This sacred calendar of the prophets has recently been uncovered from where it lay hidden in plain sight in scripture. Find out about the seven theoretical gateways to the heavens in Seven Bible Wonders - Beyond Belief.