background of New testament

the new testament tells about a time when Herod was king

what was the background?

i tried a post before but it was a mess so i try again

first 
the emperors of Rome help us set the time-frame

who was roman emperor when Jesus was born?

Augustus called first emperor [Caesar ended the republic]

27 BC until 14 AD Augustus

before Jesus' birth:

"In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world." luke 2.1

this matches what we know in history

14-37 Tiberius matching luke 3.1

"In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and Traconitis, and Lysanias tetrarch"

tetrarch means quarter 1/4 in 3-ruler-team

this tells us about the time of john-prepare 14+15=29 AD

we know who was emperor at the "deicide" - an inaccurate term because god did not die- only the body
"noone takes me" said jesus in matthew in john 10.18

the jews were powerless at the time and could do nothing but let pilate choose- pilate killed jesus.

when jesus was born emperor augustus

we also know who was king: matthew 2.19-22

"After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt 20 and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were trying to take the child’s life are dead.”

21 So he got up, took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel. 22 But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning in Judea in place of his father Herod..."

we know herod was king -37 until -4

37 BC until 4 BC Herod king [while augustus emporer]
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/263437/Herod

therefore Jesus must have been born before the year we identify as 4 BC because herod until 4 BC

therefore when we count the year 2014 we are not counting from jesus' BIRTH

we are counting from when earlier generations thought jesus was born

did you notice what the land is called according to the new testament?

http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Mat&c=2

see verses 20-21

just to be certain i checked the greek and to the horror of pro-arabs, the translation is accurate

the time between herod and the approval of archelaus mentioned in verse 22 was violent war described in josephus "jewish war" p. 112 in one of the english versions herod dies and then battles in "Israel"

jesus was spared the turmoil because fled from herod to egypt: matthew 2.13 
britannica swapped names misquoting archelaus when misquoting verse 13 as verse 22.
josef and jesus fled from herod

hence

before 4 BC because herod died and stopped being king at the latest 4 BC
therefore jesus lived in nazareth 33 years from 4 BC until 15 of tiberius when john prepared luke 3.1 in 29 AD

giant star tiny light

I processed the kid-song "twinkle twinkle little star" into Hebrew

Giant star

ts

:

כוכב תגיד: מה אתה?ה

אורך פועם מדוע?ע

הרבה אורות קטנים

ביחד הם מאירים

אראה ראשון למעלה

ואגיד המשאלה

Star what are you?

your light pulses, why?

many tiny lights

together shine

I see one above

and say the wish!

in hebrew it  rhymes

nim

NIM
TS
:
I was left with nil

I needed to nim
my brother's wallet
I always fought him

the paper money
stronger than my nay
nee-john's it would be
as easy as play

i pulled out the bills
guilt started to nag
pecking at my heart
as nib pokes a bag

I put it all back 
but i was too late
caught with his wallet
i had sealed my fate.

   definitions
nil zero, nothing 
nim to steal
nay a vote against 

nee 'nay' previously called

nag to annoy constantly

neb=nib=the beak of a bird, a small pointed part 

Torture

"Far worse things- await a man- than death"

~DRACULA

when i read the word "torture" I think of what i have read in the newspapers of physical pain and beatings and blood

things the Syrian army has been accused of.

painful electric shocks, burns and other dreadful things that the average adult says "do not tell me" while enjoying immensely be told.

TORTURE MEANS EVERYTHING that james bond is rescued from

   then  people trick us and use the same term about Israel

!!

honesty compelled them to define the word with its NEW meaning, but the title is still torture

sure they define it as "incommunica-torture" and "chain to chair-torture" which are very different than the familiar usage of this term, but they can make attractive book titles to combine the ideas in a title "torture in israel" sounds fun to read-

and to quote the title: "Have you read that book about "torture in israel"?- horrid jews"

when these activists scream:
stop the "torture in israel"
who dares to counter
unless they are "pro-torture"
In truth these stoptorture activists are saying "allow prisoners to consult with each other before interrogations"
something unnecessary for TRUTH

to LIMIT a prisoner to only say the-true-facts-as-experienced, is "incommunicate-torture" which must be stopped so must allow to plan the story with other prisoners- only necessary for lies.

stop the "chain to a chair torture" means-
grant the prisoner FREEDOM to jump on his interrogators

but when it comes to the horrid jew any tricky word is appropriate

phases in christian bibles

modern christian bible-books have many "books" or letters in the book

catholic bibles have more

protestant have less because they took out some of the books from the catholic list

as we count back we can see the phases

catholic today about 40

protestant today about 30

1500 around, selected some and rejected other from catholic

ancient canons have the epistles of paul and even 2 or 3 beyond such as first john in the list.

before that in first clement

http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/1clement-lightfoot.html

he was aware of pauls letters and specificly pauls letter to corinth as well as hebrew which although paraphrasing: "jesus more excellent name" saying "of the immortal knowledge
Who being the brightness of His majesty is so much greater than angels, as He hath inherited a more excellent name."

did not say "written" in contrast to nearby: "1Clem 36:3
For so it is written Who maketh His angels spirits and His
ministers aflame of fire"

for quoting the holy books and other quotes from genesis and psalms so at clements time the canon was only a few books on the list although he had read letters not considered the level of genesis

iran

iran has an exciting offer

we will help fight islamic state I.S. if you give us nuclear weapons

can iran who has been preventing inspections be trusted

??

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=2386

a week ago i read that america asked iran to help

from far they understand around 0%

dial and talk

when we dial a phone number,we wait until after the rings and someone answers and then begin to speak

so until we have evidence that "god" or Jesus or Allah or Vishnu exists and   a n s w e r s   the phone, it is silly to start talking

it is like talking WHILE WE   D I A L  imagining that our friend hears us

and when they say "prove god does not exist" and we say evidence and they say "that is not a proof" it is still like talking while dialing, until god "answers" the phone

   there is one benefit about prayer though

when i talk to humans, they often interrupt and say rude things

but if i imagine "a friend who loves me" and talk, he never ever interrupts me

ever ever ever...

so why do i write this today?

it is the date that as a teenager, i said/read special prayers, in addition to regular daily prayers, now i realize how silly it is to talk while dialing the number

Rome OCCUPIED Judaea

Herodian Dynasty, 60 B.C.E - 100 C.E.

rome begins to control judea and appoints antipater but herodian should begin: 37 bc
 

Herod the Great, "King of the Jews", elected by Roman Senate, 37-4 B.C.E.
Herod Archelaus (Ethnarch of Judaea) 4 B.C.E. - 6 C.E.
Herod Antipas (Tetrarch of Galilee) 4 B.C.E.-39 C.E.
Herod Philip (Tetrarch of Batanaea) 4 B.C.E - 34 C.E.
Herod Agrippa I, "King of the Jews", nominated by Claudius
     Tetrarch of Batanaea 37- 41 C.E.
     Tetrarch of Galilee 40- 41 C.E.
     King 41 - 44 C.E.
Herod Agrippa II, "King of the Jews", nominated by Claudius
     Tetrarch of Chalcis 50 - 52 C.E.
     Tetrarch of Batanaea 50 - 100 C.E.  

timeline

-60 antipater -60>-43

-43 phasael 43 >-40 share

-40?

-37>-4 king herod 

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/263437/Herod

related to matthew 2.1-2.22

-4>6 archelaus [tetrarch=4 share]

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/263473/Herod-Archelaus

relate to mt. 2.22

then claudius emporer 41 so we can see

the website s incomplete at

http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=List%20of%20Kings%20of%20Judea

hence

hence

by ts

:

I went to sleep at night

and dreamt about a bear

At 7 I awoke

and went to comb my hair

toothpaste in the morning

would not taste breakfast, hence

after sugary flakes

I brush my mouth's white fence!

   hence=for this reason=http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/hence

a story in couplet

a tale in couplet

ts

Samuel the liege

was hitting his liege

princess made a scene

though this was routine

"be quick on your feet"

Cal called for retreat

Cal, she tried to save

showing she was brave

Papa liege said loud

"Yes I have allowed"

her lust did not last

it vanished so fast

 

so she called her dad

who beat Cal real bad

until it was clear

to Cal, she was dear-

and they all lived happily ever after

    liege means both: superior and subject

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/liege

amos and paul

someone claimed "israel belongs to arabs" directing me to read "even amos" 

they think Amos chapter 9 said "muslims will return to their land"

does it?

   after all the criticism god sent through amos to Israel, for following other idols, he predicts punishment fulfilled by babylon

amos 9 predicts zerubabel will return the jews to their land

this too was fulfilled 

stop trusting those who trick you!

check for yourself: Amos chapter 9 speaks of david

11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen... 14 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel... 15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them

   so why the hell do they tell me to read amos?

http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Amos-Chapter-9/

it is called replacement theology

luckily for the jews...

romans 11.1 "not saved jew is israel"="I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew."

http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/romans-Chapter-11/
and explains there even when elija criticised the sinful jews, they are israel

besides all this, the words in Amos "their land" direct us to the story in the book joshua.

also romans 10.1 "Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved."

is this speaking of saved jews?

not saved jews are israel as the word of god continues

3 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness,

this jew is israel check for yourself
http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/romans-Chapter-10/

the sinful jew like me who denies the second god of christianity

i can hear a christian saying "if so, we must burn any new-testament-book if it has the letters of paul-the-jew"

   christians should thank jews 13 thirteen times for the 13 letters of paul the jew for bringing them  word of god!

Jew-new-year

introduction: the israeli new year is near

a rhyming title for the couplet

Jewish new year

is very near

:

the last month is "Elul"

with it the year is full

the new year is "Tishrei"

still hot from the sun's rays

I hope for "Heshvan" rains

to fill my water mains

next, my soul - soars to heights

by the Hanuka lights!

   note: each stanza has 12 sounds like the 12 months

the Jew had a unique lunar calendar which united jews in every land for many centuries and is preserved in josephus and mishna

if you ask, yes centuries before muhamed was born

fun-fact: despite the large areas of European countries, with "place" to absorb refugees, tiny Israel absorbed MORE refugees from Africa's modern troubles [including Muslims, gasp!] per territory and per population than each of the European countries.

   BOTTOM LINE It is time to show the VALUE of human life to European governments by noisy but non-violent protest so they will INVITE the oppressed Christians in African countries for refuge in Europe.

human life IS precious

human life IS precious

ts

:

life is precious

it truly is

:

we should be making an uproar about the large-scale tragedies in Iraq

!!

in Iraq precious lives are destroyed, multiplied by hundreds

in dreadful proportions

in Africa multiplied by the thousands in each of several countries

but the newspapers do not inform about the precious lives there, despite being multiplied by thousands [i found it on a middle page in one newspaper that claims to value life] certainly not where it belongs on the biggest headlines on the front pages.

any newspaper that does not call for an uproar for precious human lives in those places, each day that more than ten people are murdered in those countries-

ten seems so small compared to the real number see below-

that does not spend its first pages on the call for justice for the PRECIOUS human lives in africa and also iraq on the smaller scale

show that they are NOT interested in the value of life-

nor in Justice

these newspapers CORRUPT THE CONSCIENCE OF THE READERS -

THAT LIVE IS NOT VALUE 

we feel that hundreds "always" are murdered there, so that is NOT IMPORTANT-

BUT IT IS!

IF WE WOULD BE MOTIVATED BY JUSTICE AND VALUE OF LIFE

what does interest the public? 

anyone who knows that they cannot throw a rock at a jew but hopes that at least in court "we can hurt a jew" by scrutinizing a Jew-soldier's imperfections, not only shows his desire to HURT a jew but worse shows that it is more important than human lives even when multiplied on a large-scale

it seems that when we speak of "justice" for the "precious human life" when judging the gaza war, what makes it valuable is only the HOPE of implicating a jewish soldier and not life itself.

that is why it is more important to emphasize the gazan lives than the iraqi and african lives

   instead we should re-arrange our priorities and make an UPROAR about the precious lives in africa first and then in Iraq etc. until the world is less violent

hope for tomorrow

hope for tomorrow

ts

:

Israelis write songs about "tomorrow"

HOPE of taking off army uniforms

while muslims show a machine gun on flags

jihad uniforms for kids- are the norms

and teach "those who bombed many civilians"

"that is the glorious arab hero"

but i hope i can lock all my weapons

tomorrow, or tomorow's tomorow

i keep singing that hope-song by Shemer

each day tomorow or its tomorow

i hope next, or the next. why not the next?

or next or next? when will end this sorrow?

:
a link to her inspiring song
http://shironet.mako.co.il/artist?type=lyrics&lang=1&prfid=738&wrkid=2099

ex-vice president!

for the ex-vice president of USA Richard Cheney

by ts

:

when I see the cruelty

I cry, my eyes are rainy

because we all ridiculed

ex-V.P. Richard Cheney

a decade ago he warned 

regarding the awful fate

of Iraqi non-muslims

in the Iraq-caliphate.

:

we have certainly long forgotten Cheney's warning which we ridiculed a decade ago and hurried to forget

only now when US troops have left Iraq and the Suni caliphate called IS, is spreading  and showing great cruelty can we comprehend the warning he gave about this very region

!

he is not a "prophet" of god whose prophecy was fulfilled, but as director of department of defense he understood the population of the regions

in 2006, then Vice president cheney warned that muslims wanted a caliphate in Iraq

we all dismissed and ridiculed the possibility

but some saved the article, and showed it to me this month! now that the IS islamic-state-organization is spreading and showing horrid cruelty in OBEYING the holy quran, which they quote from for guidance

at least the US troops delayed \this fate for a decade

thank you Cheney and bravo to the US troops

i wonder if obama showed his muslim side in the troop removal? 

presbyterian ban

to the dear presbyterians who cheer the OPPRESSors-of-their-co-religionists, through their BAN of the settlement products

by ts

:

you cheered the oppressors

of your "brothers-in-christ"

instead of "not-saved jews"

your hearts must be all iced

.

on 22 june, just in time for the israelis response IN the jordan river region to the abducting of three teens, [kidnapping] remember? 3 teenagers were abducted and at first israel blame "terrorists" but did not know which, so the army was "active" in the zone governed by "palestinian authority" [not toward gaza, that was a later response to hundreds of explosive rockets fired into israel]

   the presbyter clegy voted about the "occupation" of that area=around 300 presbyters voted "for the bible" that God gave jericho and the jordan river region to israel and that "not saved jews" ARE Israel like the bible in romans 10.1 and mat. 15.24 while the MAJORITY of presbyters voted to ban products of the "occupation" zone calling it "occupation of other's land" and denying the bible that jerico was JEW-LAND [joshua 1.2] returned to jews around 50 years ago.

   the fact that they had plenty of reason not to, such as the authority of the christian bible shows the GREAT HATE pushing this vote to call it occupation and even greater hate to side with those arabs in the jordan river area who have oppressed the christian arabs with murder and rape until almost all christian arabs fled from the jordan river region

choosing the side of those arabs who OPPRESSED UNTIL EXTINCTION the presbyter's-co-religionists can only mean a GREATER HATE to the "not saved jews". WHO GIVE MONEY TO CHRISTIAN CHURCHES despite being a "jewish" state.

   so i write to the presbyterain flock you should "raise" the authority of WORD OF GOD over your presbyters and realize that "sinful" jews who are "not saved" [because they are foolish like myself and deny the second god jesus of the three gods of presbyterianism, you must pray for us fools] ARE called "israel" by both Jesus in mat. 15.24 [the "lost" of israel] and the holy books romans 10.1 [the not saved ones are called israel and paul wish the fools will be saved] and  also romans 9.3-4 the recievers of the "law" are israel of the bible.

   i hope you will realize that "all honor" is to christ not to power-hungry and money-thirsty presbyters and CANCEL MEMBERSHIP and all money from this institution

sunday can be a time of SMALL home study with family or close friends instead
   tell your friends to cancel memberships and all money to this institution

   i hope you will feel "warm" compassion for the jews who are misled by rabbis not icy hate to "occupiers of arab land" considering that it was God's land returned to "israel" as defined above, 50 years ago.

   i hope you will raise the authority of word of God in romans 8.26 that clergy are not the "middle-men" to connect you to god.

so the BOTTOM LINE

stop supporting the money-thirsty and honor-hungry clergy and stop membership and money to institution and as Christians give ALL honor to your God Christ.
this suggestiion may also be useful to all Christian [not just prebyters who took a clear position] who should consider what is the message in the word of God.

zeus and titans

a greek myth can help us understand the conflict in the middle east

zeus rescued his brothers from chronos

he offered to divide the kingdom but only hades agreed

the titans who refused to divide got nothing

then the titans were mad

zeus called cyclops and defeated the titans

 similarly

the UN divided jordan for arabs and Israel for jew-ethnicity

but someone acted like titans

!

each battle the arabs lost in 1948 arab surrender

1956 egypt surrender

1967 arab surrender

1973 arab surrender

2014 hamas begs for a cease-fire

to quote papa smurf "why do you fight when you lose each battle?"

luckily egypt and jordan have made peace treaties.

the war will end in middle east when Islam learns not to "hurt" others- but that goes against allah who said in the holy quran at least seven times "fight the deniers of muhamed"

how can we separate violence from islam

?

no rockets?

it is so surprising that when there are no rockets fired into israel, israel "stops" trying to take the Gaza oil [is there even oil there?] and stops its "plans" for arab genocide. hmm.
we can now measure that this coincidence shows that Israel never TRIED those things or the other claims.

if arabs would not shoot explosive rockets into Israel there would be "peace" like yesterday

the war is not between the two religions "jew/Islam" because most Jews are secular not religious.

the jews are happy with "personal" goals and families such as children being back in school.  as in the previous song
http://tomsawyerssongs.blogspot.co.il/2014/09/back-to-school.html

in israel the idea of PERSONAL goals is emphasized and the government's mission is to protect the families to strive for the personal goals

this all stands in contrast to the religion of Allah where the person must do what is good for the whole and no value for personal.

the war in the Middle East is a "war by muhamedans against non-muhamedans" whether jew religion or athiest or christian arab. therefore no hope for peace with the followers of allah.

the war will continue until the last non-muhamedan is murdered.

oops actually war will continue between shia such as: hizbolla etc. against sunni such as I.S. islamic state organization etc.,.

back to school

title in rhyme: 

according to the Board of Education

most students are bored of education

ts

:

"I obey the law and go to school

classes are boring except for lab

but this years interesting classes

still bore me because the teachers blab."

PUNISH. not lax, "Don't make the class laf!"

in the lavatory we all lave.

Geography became "History"

only the go-home signals will save!

   definitions:   law: a rule established by representatives, lab: the place for doing science studies,  interesting: subjects that draw the students, blab: talk too much wordy from blab "Talk foolishly or mindlessly" at http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/blab

lax: forgiving, laf from laugh, lave: to wash clean,

speed bumps save lives

i awoke from a dream in which speed bumps saved lives

the ones who crossed the street "bad" were given tickets to pay.

be safe