Radio New Jerusalem

-

-

-

Radio New Jerusalem Presents:

"The Story"


With

Chaplain Phil Ropp


Program 2:


"The Story of the Cross"






Antenna

Radio New Jerusalem Presents:

"The Story"


 
Listen Online - Program 2: "The Story of the Cross"



Cross


Radio New Jerusalem Presents: The Story

With Chaplain Phil Ropp

Program 2: The Story of the Cross

Annotated Broadcast Transcript with Links to Key Words and Terms

Featured in Tonight's Program





Red Planet Mars Firesign Theater Ellen G. White Bishop Fulton J. Sheen




Father Albert Nolan Shiva dancing at CERN Our Holy Father, Pope Francis Musical Guests - The Dinning Sisters
From the City of God to Rome and the World...
Segment 2: The Cross: Center Stage in the Cosmic Passion Play
Opening / Introduction Segment 3: The Cross: The Axis Mundi Around Which History Turns
Segment 1: The Desire of Ages: A Prehistory of the Cross
Closing / Endnotes / Links in Text

From the City of God to Rome and the World...


Chaplain Phil Ropp has served as a jail and prison ministry chaplain.  He currently serves part time in an outreach ministry to the homeless.

Chaplain Phil was pursuing a career as a churchman and academic when Jesus saved him in a dramatic Incident on May 17, 1977. Since then, he has continued to study the Bible, ancient history, theology, the esoteric and the absurd in an effort to discover how and why the religious education he received led him so far astray. “The Story” is the end result of this four decade long process.


“The Story” comes to you from Mother Angelica Memorial Studio (above left) and is hosted by Chaplain Phil Ropp (above right).

Opening

From the City of God to Rome and the world, Radio New Jerusalem now begins broadcasting on this frequency.

Radio New Jerusalem now presents a series of broadcasts simply called, The Story.  The Story is of man’s sojourn upon the earth. It’s the story of a journey across time and space; from a bloody cross outside the Old City of Jerusalem, to the Tree of Life within the New – from a humble cradle to an empty grave – and beyond.

This is Chaplain Phil Ropp, inviting you to join me for the next chapter of “The Story,” which will begin right after this message.

Radio New Jerusalem presents: “The Story,” and at radionewjerusalem.com, you’ll find a podcast and transcript of today’s broadcast, along with links to key words and terms, and more general information about the program.  The RNJ website also offers Bible and other study aids, along with hundreds of links to news and other information you’re sure to find interesting and informative.  RNJ is the exclusive home on the web for “A Few Minutes with Father,” featuring the reflections and wisdom of noted Catholic author Father Allan Fenix.  Check out “Chaplain Phil’s Journal,” for the complete collection of my writings going back over 40 years.  Click on the “Contact” link at the top of the page to tell us your story or comment on the program. 

RNJ is Catholic Pirate Radio.  We don’t do Facebook, Twitter, or participate in any social media.  We believe in our right to free speech (and yours) and choose to exercise this right on the first and last medium set aside for this very purpose, shortwave radio.

We ask that you join your prayers to ours that these airwaves may continue to belong to the people, and that God’s message of salvation through the shed blood of Jesus Christ may continue to be broadcast to a dying world that desperately needs to hear it.

And now, this is Chaplain Phil, inviting you to join me for the latest chapter of The Story.

Introduction

Audio clip

Priest: “Down on your knees, now!  Do you recognize what I’m holding over your heads, lads?”

Native American: “It’s a cross!  The symbol of the quartering of the universe into active and passive principles!”

Priest: “God have mercy on their heathen souls!”

Conquistador: “What the father means is what is the cross made of?  Gold!  Have you got any?”

Good evening, everyone.  This is Chaplain Phil.  This clip from Firesign Theater’s “Temporarily Humboldt County” sums up the theme of tonight’s program: demonstrating the mockery that both church and state have made of the Cross of Christ.  As we delve into the different stories that comprise The Story, we’ll see that this theme of humans mocking God reoccurs over and over again, and the end result is always the same: God will not be mocked, and utter and total destruction ensues.  When this takes place at the global level our world operates at, then the result is global destruction.  Seems obvious enough, doesn’t it?  

And so we find ourselves in a terrible dilemma, and engulfed in this dire crisis of faith – or rather the lack thereof – that is rapidly plunging Earth into a darkness from which it will not reemerge nor recover.  That’s the sobering truth of it.  No sugar coating it.  No false hope.  It’s not a popular message, but in a world in which it seems everyone is lying, and confusion runs rampant, it’s a message that needs to be heard.  Show me in Scripture where it describes how we live happily ever after on this planet and I’ll recant what I’m saying here.  It doesn’t say that and I think that's reason enough to listen closely to what The Story has say.

From the moment the religious and political leaders in Jesus’ day decided to kill Christ at the Cross, the die was cast, and the ultimate and utter destruction of man’s wicked civilization upon the earth was assured.  It was an extinction level event with a time delay fuse, and from the moment this mass extinction became possible back in the 1940’s, the timer has been ticking. 

There was a movie made about this in 1952 titled Red Planet Mars.  I touch on it briefly in Segment 2.  It describes the utter darkness of the world of the Cold War, the horror of life at the hands of the atheist communist dictatorship running the Soviet Union, and the threat this poses to a western world in which faith has waned and the love of most has grown cold.  When a message that seems to be from God is received from Mars, there is a debate in the Oval Office as to whether or not it should be released. 

Audio Clip

President of the United States: “Your arguments in defense of scientific freedom have convinced me.”

Secretary of Defense: “This time Cronyn is right, Mr. President.  We can’t hitch our wagon to that star!”

President of the United States: “We’ve switched stars, Mr. Secretary.  Now we’re following the Star of Bethlehem!” 

The message is released on the president’s command, and the peoples of the decadent west pull themselves together and flood the churches with repentant souls.  This same message spreads through the Christian underground behind the Iron Curtain, and the result is a massive grassroots rebellion that throws off the yoke of tyranny and places the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church on the seat of power.  This happy and secure new world order is threatened briefly by the antagonist, who is the last of the mad Nazis, and this threat is thwarted by the self-sacrifice of the protagonists.  The picture fades to a shot of the sky, and from on high we see these words descending: THE BEGINNING.

Imagine the reaction to President Donald Trump announcing that America is now going to follow Jesus.  The unbelievers would howl and demand his head.  They do this now, for that matter.  They’d have it in this scenario because the so called “believers” would either stand mute or argue among themselves over nothing.  To be fair, they’d have done the same thing if Harry Truman had done this in 1952.  Red Planet Mars is an uplifting story, but science fiction then as now.  A revival of faith at this level is the only thing that can save America and the world, and it won’t.  That’s Bible prophecy speaking, not Chaplain Phil.     

It’s the Cross that represents the ultimate truth, and when the curtain comes down on the final act of the Passion Play that is human history on this planet, it will be the end.  But the Cross will remain to point to the New Jerusalem that ascends to heaven as the words “THE BEGINNING” descend.    

This is where The Story ends.  And this is why it begins where we begin tonight: at the Cross.  

And now, Segment 1: The Desire of Ages: A Prehistory of the Cross.                    

Segment 1: The Desire of Ages: A Prehistory of the Cross

I once wrote an academic paper for a Christology class at Assumption University titled, “The Gospel According to Albert Nolan.”  It was good enough to nearly get me expelled from the program, which is a story I tell in an open letter to the Academic Vice President that I cleverly called, “A New Assumption?  Anyway, the paper was in the form of an assigned book review of Albert Nolan’s smarmy apologia to liberation theology, “Jesus Before Christianity,” and in it I demonstrated that Christianity, in a very real sense, actually predated Jesus. 

It’s obvious if you think about it.  Jesus steps into the predefined role of the divinely sent Messiah/Priest/King/, and, in doing so, fulfills a concept that develops throughout the Old Testament.  He then makes this role transcendent by using it as a platform to proclaim the Gospel of Christ: eternal salvation through the shed blood of the Son of God at the Cross.  The latter makes no sense outside of the cultural and religious context of the former, as it speaks to, and answers, the deepest longings of the Old Testament faith going all the way back to Eden.

To this day, we call Jesus the “Lamb of God,” which is a direct reference to the sacrificial rite for the atonement for sin practiced in the cult of ancient Israel.  This cult of animal sacrifice was practiced in a formal sense from the time of Moses forward, and in a practical sense since the day the angel of Yahweh stayed the hand of Abraham from slaying his son, Isaac.  The significance of the ram in the thicket should not be lost on us – it prefigures the Lamb of God.  And forbidding the ultra-sinful practice of child sacrifice among the Hebrews in the time of Abraham – a time as far removed from Jesus as his time is from us – united God and His wayward people and opened the way to the Cross.  It made it possible for God the Father to one day offer His Own Son as the once-and-for-all sacrifice in the person of Jesus of Nazareth.

Albert Nolan doesn’t see it this way.  He has a different perspective based upon the work of scholars he humbly deems more capable than he, and he parrots their false historical claims that Jesus is nothing more than a simple Jewish peasant, who accidentally got himself executed by the nasty old Romans for preaching the “gospel” of human rights in the face of their tyranny.  In Nolan’s mind, Jesus is more a political martyr after the order of Che Guevara than the crucified Savior and a priest after the order of Melchizedek. 

Nolan believes that once we are able to set aside all of the Christ nonsense, the “man who emerges” – the “real” Jesus, might just be able to inspire us towards a greater appreciation of the need for the liberation of the oppressed in our world.  Even if he’s dead, and un-risen, and unable to offer any direct intervention in human affairs, some of what he said may yet be of value.  Nolan writes, “…we dare not presume that he [Jesus] has all the answers… Nor can we presume that his insights will be irrelevant and that we can safely ignore them.  Our situation is so critical that we dare not leave any stone unturned in our search for a way out.”[i] 

Seriously, I was almost kicked out of a Catholic University program for arguing against this crap.  Oh, and did I mention that Albert Nolan is a Catholic priest?  He is actually Father Albert Nolan.  I mention this to underscore the fact that this is the kind of education in the faith your pastor most likely received if he attended a Catholic, or liberal Protestant, seminary.  This and worse.  It’s all sheer garbage, and if your pastor is spewing nonsense like this instead of proclaiming the Gospel of Christ, it may be because he’s never heard it presented as truth or as something worthy of belief.  Maybe he’s never heard it at all.  Invite him to tune in here.     

This might be a good time to mention that the only historical accounts we have of Jesus are found in the New Testament gospels, and in a small collection of apocryphal gospels that tell the same basic story.  Such conjecture as that engaged in by the so-called “scholars” of the Christian intelligentsia is just that: conjecture.  I’m a better historian than to try to sell some theory that I made up as historical fact, and I only have a bachelor’s degree.  Those with doctorates who make up alternate histories concerning who Jesus “really” was, and peddle this stuff as the historically accurate version of what happened as opposed to what’s recorded in the gospels, must know, at some level, that they are constructing their narratives out of whole cloth, and they should know better than this.

Two of the New Testament gospels, Matthew and John, are claimed to be eye witness accounts, and the other two, Mark and Luke, are based upon the accounts of eye witnesses.  In the study of ancient history, four independent, corroborative accounts, with two being primary sources, and the other two being very strong secondary sources, is usually more than enough evidence to make a sound case for the historical veracity of certain events.  Unless, of course, those certain events concern Jesus, then the rules are suddenly different.                  

Under these special rules of historical method, made up for the sole purpose of discrediting the gospel accounts, any theory that does this is preferable to the story as plainly stated in the gospels.  And, let me remind you, these gospels were considered Unassailable Sacred Scripture for the better part of the last 2000 years by the vast majority of all Christians in all denominations. 

With some minor variations, the way these half-baked theories invariably play out sounds something like this:

The Early Church Fathers of the second century, based upon the faulty memories and exaggerated claims of the Apostles, a band of ragged disciples following an itinerant Jewish preacher named Jesus, invented the Christian religion by falsely claiming that this Jesus had been crucified by the Romans at the insistence of the Jewish Temple Authorities for claiming to be the son of God.  Actually, it was the Romans who executed him for being a revolutionary zealot.  The disciples then stole his body (or in one scenario, it is eaten by dogs roaming beneath the cross), and then claimed he had miraculously risen from the dead.  According to this line of thought, they did this for no greater purpose than that of slandering the Jewish leaders of their day, and this led to an ongoing persecution of Jews down through the centuries. 

Based upon these false claims about Jesus, the Early Church extrapolated the entire Christian faith, and, like a raging wildfire, it spread through and weakened the foundations of the Roman Empire.  And when this ultimately resulted in the hysterical or contrived conversion of Constantine, it paved the way for the Catholic Church to emerge as the most powerful and influential entity of all time.  The Church, in turn, created Western Civilization in a concerted effort to force feed this “false” gospel of salvation in the Cross of Christ to a world that didn’t want it or need it, and fraudulently claimed Jesus’ admonition in Matthew 28:19 to, “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations,” as the authority to do so. 

Rather than saving their souls unto eternal life, this supposedly robbed indigenous, primitive peoples everywhere of their beautiful and noble native culture, and the Catholic Church is actually addressing this in October at the Synod of the Amazon.  Pope Francis is suggesting that the Church has more to learn from the pagan “spiritualities” of these cultures than they need to learn from the Church.  

This demonstrates in no uncertain terms that the root cause of the threat to Christian Culture that we currently face is based upon the widespread acceptance of this invented and ahistorical belief that Jesus is a fraud, and Christianity a lie of vast and staggering proportion going all the way back to the Cross.  And that’s not just what the world believes – it’s what they teach in the seminaries.  It’s what the Catholic Church and the mainline Protestant Churches believe at their highest levels.  The new “Messianic Secret” is that there never was one, and this is the “terrible truth” they protect us hapless sheep from in order to keep the cash flowing from our pockets and into their coffers.  It’s what makes them think they can rape our children and get away with it.

As this all comes more and more out into the open, and Jesus' prophetic words, “ For nothing is hidden that will not be revealed…” are fulfilled, the tension in the Church, and the world, has become palpable.  As the Barque of Peter lists increasingly to the far left, the sheep are deserting faster than rats scurrying off the Titanic.  And they will find the icy waters of the rising post-Christian Culture to be as cold and treacherous as the ice fields of the North Atlantic.

Boil the thin sap of all the conspiracy theories concerning this down into the heavy syrup of reality, and we find the various enemies of Christ are much progressed in accomplishing the destruction of the Christian faith in this way.  And as they succeed in this, they bring Western Civilization down with it.  It’s the vision of this process in progress that St. John describes in the Book of Revelation.  It makes the time we live in not only exciting but also frightening because, once we get past the propaganda of a false, anti-Christian reality that is sold to us in the media, in the schools and colleges, and even at church, we can see that this is actually happening right now, right before our eyes.  And the scope of all of this is escalating exponentially as the pace is likewise accelerating.  This is what radio legend Art Bell referred to as “The Quickening.”

A fair question to ask at this point is, “What does any of this have to do with the History of the Cross?”  And the answer is that, as the mission, purpose and person of Jesus is historically discredited and discounted, so too is the Cross.  And, like the teachings of Christianity itself, the Cross is also present and predates the birth of Jesus, as it anticipates the coming of the Christ Who would, one day, hang upon it.  And, like Christianity itself, it’s great truths and power to save, God’s greatest gift revealed in Christ and handed down to us through the ages, is now being obscured, and its true message perverted and destroyed.      

From the dawn of time; from that time in which early humans dressed in animal skins first expressed their most deep-seated desire for eternal life upon the walls of the caves they lived in, they sketched this desire in the form of a cross. 

In the opening words of the Publisher’s Preface to the 1898 Ellen G. White classic Desire of Ages, we read as follows:

In the hearts of all mankind, of whatever race or station in life, there are inexpressible longings for something they do not now possess.  This longing is implanted in the very constitution of man by a merciful God, that man may not be satisfied with his present conditions or attainments, whether bad, or good, or better.  God desires that the human shall seek the best, and find it to the eternal blessing of his soul.

It is God’s design that this longing of the human heart should lead to the One who alone is able to satisfy it.[ii]

And it is Bishop Fulton Sheen who brings this into sharper focus when he writes in his excellent and spirit filled Life of Christ:

It was not so much that His birth cast a shadow on His life, and thus led to his death; it was rather that the Cross was there from the beginning and cast its shadow backward to His birth.[iii]

We have been told by the scientists that the cross is the most universal symbol of primitive man’s sojourn upon the earth and dates to the dawn of history.[iv]  If we ask ourselves just who these primitive people might have been who were scrawling these crosses upon the rocks and the walls of their caves, we may remember Genesis, chapter 3 and verse 21: “Yahweh Elohim made clothes from animal skins for the man and his wife and dressed them.” And he then proceeded to boot them from Eden and out into the world.

When science picks up the story, science itself tells us that these primitive people, clad in the skins of animals, were scrawling the symbol of the cross upon their walls and surroundings thousands of years ago.  And if science hadn’t separated itself so far from God for so long, science would also know why they did this, and it would know better than to claim the cross to be an ancient pagan symbol stolen by the early Christians.    

Our Christian tradition suggests that this early fascination with the symbol of the cross was the result of a deep-seated anticipation of that long-promised time in which God would once again reveal Himself as He had done in the garden.  He would save them from death and from that fate that is even worse: the separation from Him that defines hell itself.  And, somehow, they knew even then that He would accomplish this in conjunction with a cross. 

The cross then, is the symbol for this “desire of ages.”  And this desire is the most basic of all human instincts – the desire for eternal life.  It comes not from the heart or mind but from the very soul itself.  It defines us as human beings, and it removes the limitation to our potential that was imposed by the fall of man in the historical Garden of Eden, which occurred at the beginning of this current, and rapidly closing, epoch of humanity.

Going back to the earliest times of this epoch, we find that humanity divides into two basic and opposed camps of peoples.  There are those who serve the Evil One and his minions in the pantheon of the many “gods,” and those who follow the One True God, who is both Creator and Savior.  All the conflicts in the history of this time we could call the “Eden Epoch,” can be boiled down to, and traced back to, this primordial struggle.  This is the background necessary to understand the motivations behind Old Testament history, and Christ in the New Testament brings this history to a close with the final triumph of the One True God over  Satan at the Cross. 

In the mid-19th century, this was the stuff of Sunday School lessons and the Catechism in America.  It was the shared common knowledge that formed the foundation for American politics and culture.  It was who we were, and how we understood ourselves as a people, and it was our ultimate reality.  With this as the reality of the people the nation flourished, and without it the nation now crumbles. 

This is our current reality, and this process is actually more advanced in the world’s other formerly Christian nations.  The end result is destruction, and if anyone doubts this, just look at what became of ancient Israel when the people of the nation turned their backs on Yahweh and embraced the false gods of the Evil One.  That’s what’s happening with the current rise of Neo-paganism in what is already called the post-Christian world, and when we understand this in terms of Biblical prophecy, the Book of Revelation scenario plays out.                   

One of the great academic travesties to arise during the late 19th century, a time in which many such travesties arose, was social Darwinism.  It provided the intellectual justification for such 20th century horrors as fascist imperialism, eugenics, racism, and various and sundry other forms of political upheaval and social injustice. When applied to ancient history, it paints a false and overly simplistic picture of human development that progresses neatly from one “age” to the next – from stone to bronze, to iron, and it presents religion as likewise evolving naturally from animism, to polytheism, to monotheism. 

While social Darwinism fell out of favor a long time ago as a means of understanding the politics and social constructs of the modern world, it somehow remains dominant in the academic understanding of the religion and history of the distant past, and it has replaced the Biblical reality with a false religion: an ahistorical scientism that has atheism as its underlying premise, and the destruction of Christianity as its core value and goal.  This is the new shared common knowledge of the 21st century.                

In our day and age this new common academic knowledge denies the Cross and Resurrection of Christ and spawns a Christian intelligentsia that in turn spawns the likes of Albert Nolan, and numerous others, who spread these lies within the schools of higher learning and the churches.  It certainly isn’t surprising that none believe the Garden of Eden story to be in any way even remotely historical.  Yet it is set within an historical context, it is presented within a geographical setting, and the underlying assumption of the ancient storyteller is that he is relating the deeper truths of God as historical fact and not myth. 

As an honest historian, I can’t just gloss over this and move on, and we’re going to delve into all of this in a deeper way in the next program.  For my purpose here, just realize that the typical creation myths of other ancient peoples are wild and fanciful tales of monsters split in half to form heaven and earth and that sort of thing.  Eden is unique in that it claims to be history, and projects its worldview forward through the time of the patriarchs, the rise and fall of the kingdom of Israel, and reaches its climax at the Cross of Jesus Christ – the desire of ages. And the desire of those in our age who still long for Him.

I’ll be right back with Segment 2: The Cross: Center Stage in the Cosmic Passion Play right after this.

Musical Interlude: “Aunt Hagar’s Children’s Blues” The Dinning Sisters 

Segment 2: The Cross: Center Stage in the Cosmic Passion Play

It is fitting that the telling of The Story begins at the Cross.  The reason for this is simple.  The Story is centered in the Cross.  It’s a Christ centered story, and at the center of Christ’s story is the Cross.  The correct Christian understanding of not only history, but reality itself, is neither circular nor linear, but rather begins at the center point of the Cross and radiates outward towards infinity – or eternity, to put it in a more religious frame.

The Cross, then, is the centerstage piece in the Passion Play of salvation, in which Immanuel, the Anointed Son of David called “The Messiah,” the long awaited Desire of the Ages, the Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father and Prince of Peacethe Christ, the Son of God – walks out upon the stage of human history clothed in the person of Jesus of Nazareth and is crucified by the very priests pledged to serve Him.  His crime is no greater than that of identifying Himself to them.  Their hatred of Him raged without bounds.[v] 

By the time Jesus walked the dusty roads of ancient Palestine, the cosmological understanding of the Jews, and most other Near Eastern peoples, was essentially that of a universe consisting of a spherical earth as a center point with concentric “heavens” radiating out from it.  Change the word “heavens” to “dimensions” and you find an understanding of reality that is very similar to that taking shape at the cutting edge of 21st century physics.     

One of the numerous errors that social Darwinism creates when it’s used as the basis for understanding ancient times, is that it makes the assumption that man’s intellectual sophistication and cosmological understanding evolves along a linear path, so that when one looks at this in reverse, it is naturally assumed that society before the dark ages would, somehow, be even more primitive simply because of where it falls on the ancient timeline – before the dark ages.

Despite the outward brutality, the truth is that the ancient civilizations were much more advanced than the modern academic community gives them credit for, and in some ways we have yet to achieve the level of sophistication necessary to properly understand a lot of their thought, perspective and worldview. 

Thanks to the inbred, countercultural prejudice against all things Judeo-Christian that has come into vogue in the colleges, universities and seminaries over the last few generations, this has become particularly true of the Hebraic, monotheistic culture that descended from Abraham through Isaac and Jacob.  Under David, the Kingdom of Israel would rise to be the greatest empire of its time, ruling an area that spanned from the Tigris to the Nile, while growing fabulously wealthy controlling the trade routes that traversed through Jerusalem and made it quite literally the center of the world in the 10th century BC.[vi]

The fashion among academics for the past few hundred years has been to swoon over the civilization of classical pagan Greece that arose 500 years after the Golden Age of Ancient Israel, and whose most notable gifts to Western Culture have been democracy and pederasty.  In our times, the two have merged. 

We now find ourselves at the far end of the Judeo-Christian civilization that reached its zenith under David, and found its fulfillment in Jesus.  And it has become difficult for us to see the forest for the trees in terms of how significant the contributions of Ancient Israel have been to the world we live in today.  The Cross of Christ is, of course, the first and foremost of these contributions.  This and the earlier revelation of the One True God, more generally speaking, remain at the outer limits of our human comprehension.  Maybe that’s why it’s been so easy for the world in our time to jettison our age old belief system in favor of this false scientism that, ironically enough, places the blame on the Christian and Jewish peoples for the very horrors it has brought upon the earth itself. 

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”  The revelation of God to this world came through the Word, and the Word revealed Himself in such a way in the days of the Old Testament that those who belonged to Him would forever recognize Him in the New Testament.  And the understanding of reality that He revealed to us in ancient times is only now beginning to be understood by science in our time.  Ironically enough, the spiritual ignorance inherent in the scientific worldview means that those who are arrogant enough to consider themselves to be the smartest among us are about to do the dumbest thing possible, in spiritual terms, by unlocking the bottomless pit and releasing the plagues of Abaddon upon the earth.  That’s what’s happening at CERN.      

The modern study of physics that arose with Einstein and others at the end of the 19th century has led to much theorizing in our day on the existence of parallel or alternate universes and realities.  It’s as if science is coming around full circle to an understanding of existence more in keeping with the Biblical understanding of cosmology, at the same time it grows bolder in denying the Cross of Christ at its center. 

The act of God at creation; the so called “Big Bang” that occurred when the Cross hit the center of the cosmic void, reverberates through existence and, like ripples on a pond when a stone is cast into it, creates the separate realities and parallel universes that exist just beyond the periphery of our human consciousness.   Each is separated and isolated from the other, yet each has Christ and the Cross at its mystical center.  And, overlooking this deeper and more mystical truth of creation, is what is leading us into the profound time of disaster that is nearly upon us.

This means the waters of our own reality are greatly troubled, and the various evil entities, and wicked beings, who occupy the dimension called Hell; those who fell with, and are led by, Satan himself, seek constantly to access our world through the barriers that God put in place for our protection, first and foremost among these being the Cross of Christ.  This is why demons and those possessed by them, those who practice the dark arts, and the various evil entities and wicked beings that occupy the deepest recesses of the night, shrink from it.  The increasing depravity in the world, the rapidly rising evil, and the widespread occurrence of seemingly bizarre and unexplainable events and incidents, demonstrate an escalating breakdown in these barriers, and those who are sensitive to this on both God’s side and the devil’s refer to this as the “thinning of the veil.”   

Beyond this veil, God has given certain members of the angelic host who occupy the heavenly dimension access to the earthly realm to serve and protect those who serve Him.  The Bible is full of stories about this phenomenon, and the Catholic Church, beleaguered though it may be by those who serve Satan within it, and seek to destroy it from the inside out, has, by the power of the Holy Spirit, managed to serve the faithful followers of Jesus with rites, rituals, symbols and powerful weapons of spiritual warfare that have kept this situation more or less in check for the for the last nearly two thousand years.  In our day, we have come to a time of dire crisis in the Church, because the long term infiltration of the Church by militant homosexuals, freemasons, communists, apostates, and even Lucifer himself has now pushed this situation to critical mass, and this delicate balance has shifted in a significant way to the dark side.  And so we pray, “Come Lord Jesus.”

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, located on the Franco/Swiss border, supposedly in efforts to understand and duplicate the conditions present at the “Big Bang” when these separate realities were established, threatens to break open these barriers in a way not experienced before, at least not within history as we understand it. 

There has been much controversy concerning a large statue of the Hindu god Shiva that stands outside the Large Hadron Collider’s location.  Shiva is known as the “god of destruction,” represents darkness and is known as “the angry god.”  In Hinduism, he periodically destroys creation so the god Brahma can recreate it.  Because of his role in the cycle of destruction and regeneration, his symbol is the phallus.  In the Old Testament, he is the equivalent of the Canaanite Ba’al, who functions this same basic way, and whose symbol is also the phallus.  In Christian terms, when we see Shiva represented at CERN, what we are looking at is another culture’s representation of Satan the devil.                      

I heard a Bible teacher on the radio recently theorize that the so called “Mandella effect,” the shared knowledge of changes in our reality typified by the false memory many share of the death of Nelson Mandella back in the 1980’s, could potentially produce an alternate reality in which Christ had never come, and that we might find ourselves in that kind of a faith dilemma.  One of the reasons I’m telling the story of the Cross is to stress that it is not symbolically, but literally, at the center of all reality, and there is no alternate reality in which it does not exist. 

In the 1952 science fiction movie, Red Planet Mars, Peter Graves plays a scientist who establishes radio contact with a civilization on Mars.  The Martians describe their planet to him as a virtual utopia in which all pain and suffering has been eliminated, and in which all live in peace and prosperity.  When asked how this came about, the Martians tell of a great teacher who had walked among them and taught them a higher way of life, and his time coincides with the time in which Christ walked the earth.  The implication is clear – when the Martian savior appeared in their midst they listened and took his teachings to heart rather than crucify him.  This news of an idyllic life on Mars sets off a panic here on earth, and crowds of protestors gather and threaten Peter Grave’s life after hailing him as a great hero for making the extraterrestrial contact just a short time before. 

The Christ allegory in this movie, along with the ultimate DXing experience of making contact with Mars, makes this one of my favorite films.  And while it’s a great story, a true understanding of Christian cosmology would have us realize that the Martians, providing they were fallen humans like us, would have most likely crucified their Savior just as we did.  And the Cross would haunt and trouble their planet the same way it haunts ours.  Even if they had not crucified their Lord, the peace and harmony that existed among them would still be relational to the Cross they didn’t use, though in a more positive way that would certainly pave an easier road to eternity than the one we trod. 

Obviously, this is all just speculation, and it might be a good idea to note at this point that, as much as the scientists claim that intelligent life must exist out there in space somewhere, there's absolutely not one shred of evidence of any kind that it does, merely the same kind of endless speculation.  I sometimes wonder if it exists here. 

Space travel as envisioned in the 50’s, and as the current talk of a Mars mission still describes it today, isn’t really practical except as a cash cow for NASA.  The existence of wormholes and stargates and other space/time anomalies make the Apollo moon mission mindset a thing of the past, and the technology that produced it as dated as zeppelins and the auto gyro.

The UFO’s and the oddities that accompany them can no longer be understood in terms of the old fashioned Earth Versus the Flying Saucers mentality of the 1950’s that assumed they were visitors from another planet, like we would be someday, traveling out there in the great, endless expanse “…where no man has gone before.”  The Biblical record injects some startling and frightful insights into this phenomenon as well, and the more we come to understand the various alien types and their deceptions in terms of devils and demons, the more sense the whole thing makes.  It’s all a matter of perspective.  It’s how you look at it.  The revealed Word of God teaches us repeatedly that every time our supposed wisemen climb some unknown mountain of knowledge, they reach the summit only to find God already there, pointing to a loftier peak they had yet to contemplate, and warning of a darker valley that increases the destructive potential inherent in our fallen nature.    

And while those in our institutions of higher learning aren’t the first to believe they’ve come to know it all when they know next to nothing, they may, however, be the last.

I'll return momentarily with Segment 3: The Cross: The Axis Mundi Around which History Turns

Musical Interlude: “Pig Foot Pete” The Dinning Sisters

Segment 3: The Cross: The Axis Mundi Around Which History Turns

When teaching Bible to men in prison, I quickly discovered that most who set out to study the book of their Christian faith thought the way to do so was to open the Old Testament to Genesis page one, read straight through until the end of Malachi, then repeat the process, Matthew through Revelation, in the New Testament.  This approach usually lasted until the genealogical tables began in Genesis.  The more persistent ones might make it as far as the Book of the Covenant in Exodus.  I never tried to talk them out this approach.  I always let them try it.  When I would hear, “Chaplain Phil, this don’t make no sense!” Then I knew we were ready to try it my way.  That’s a direct quote, by the way.       

The reason for this frustration is found in the fact that the deeper story of the Bible doesn’t begin on page one and run in chronological order.  The Story of God’s sojourn with the people of Earth actually begins at the Cross, and where the Cross enters the ocean of man’s time upon the earth, it sends out ripples in time that reach back to the occurrence of original sin, and forward to that point when sin is no more.  True, this story begins in Genesis and ends in Revelation, but if one doesn’t see this from the correct perspective of the “bigger picture,” then the result is to get bogged down in the minutiae and ebb and flow of thousands of years of history.  This correct perspective is called the “View from the Cross,” and it’s achieved through a mystical union with Christ in which His worldview becomes ours. 

The Cross of Christ is the axis mundi around which human existence turns, transcendent and unchangeable across time and space.  It is where the eternal meets the cosmic and, in turn, intersects the physical reality of Earth.  It is where the mystical reality of God takes on human flesh and is laid bare, scourged, and crucified. In death it is revealed Who He is, as the light of the sun fails, the earth quakes, the dead are raised and the veil is rent, exposing the true Holy of Holies in the most dramatic moment in human history, and we’ll pause here for a moment to contemplate it before we move on.[vii] 

The two components of the Cross are the patibulum (the crossbeam) and the stipes (the upright post).  Where they meet is the point at which God encounters man.  No one comes to the Father but through the Son, and this is where the meeting takes place.  The mystical pillar of the stipes rises to the throne of God in heaven, the highest dimension of reality.  It descends to the deepest part of the lowest dimension of reality, which we call Hell.   

Where Jesus hangs on the Cross is the midpoint between heaven and hell.  He hangs alone within this vertical plane, in this mystical reality, for as the Son of God, He is the only One capable of offering Himself for us in this way and is, therefore, the only one capable of saving us.

It was at the breach of heaven; that point in the fathomless past when the rebellious archangel Lucifer was thrown down to Earth; when the current cosmological reality was established; when death came into being, that God the Father, in His anguish and in His love for us, cast the stipes down upon the earth, and, piercing through it, it descended on into the depths of the lower realms: death and hell and the grave – and it opened them.  He promised that He would come to us and He did: He suffers for us as the Man of Eternal Sacrifice, crucified from the beginning of time until its end, so as to enter into our time and space at the appointed time, yet be always available to our salvation. He is the Lamb of God – the once and for always, blameless and eternal, spotless sacrifice, sent to us for this very purpose. 

As the Son of Man, His hands nailed to the patibulum reach out across time and space in the horizontal plane to embrace and offer salvation to the whole of mankind within this physical reality, and throughout every historical setting.  Human history flows out from Him on the one hand and flows back to Him on the other.  He is thus both Alpha and Omega, Beginning and End. 

The titulus, the sign attached at the top of the stipes, proclaims “Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum” (INRI): “Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews.”  This mocking and sarcastic display of political hubris on the part of Pontius Pilate marks forever that point in time at which the human presence upon the Earth, through its own collective free will, severed, once and for all time, the relationship between God and human governments.  “We have no king but Caesar!” echoes across the Praetorium and reverberates around the world and to the throne of God itself.  It fulfills Jesus’ prophetic words to Pilate that His kingdom is not of this world and marks, with the finitude of the grave, the final death of the historical kingdom of Israel, as the last of the messianic Davidic kings is executed by the Roman pagans that rule in the once Holy City of God, The Old City of Jerusalem. 

So Jesus, the rightful priest-king of Israel and proclaimed as such by the cheering throngs on Palm Sunday, is, on Good Friday, condemned, tortured and executed for being Who He claimed to be, the Son of God.  This occurs as this same crowd cries out for Pilate to release not Jesus, but Barabbas the insurrectionist, robber and assassin.  They have no use for a king Whose kingdom is not of this world.  The hero they want is the man who sheds the blood of others, not He Who sheds His own for them.  The Son of God is offered up at the demand of a false priesthood that recognized Him for Who He is and still put Him to death, and did so in league with the imposter King Herod; an Idumaean and not a Jew, and a puppet of the Roman pagans, who cared even less about Jesus than they did.  As for the priests and the religious leaders, it is Jesus Himself Who explains their fate to them in the haunting “Parable of the Evil Farmers” in Matthew 21:

“Now listen to another story. A certain landowner planted a vineyard, built a wall around it, dug a pit for pressing out the grape juice, and built a lookout tower. Then he leased the vineyard to tenant farmers and moved to another country.  At the time of the grape harvest, he sent his servants to collect his share of the crop.  But the farmers grabbed his servants, beat one, killed one, and stoned another.  So the landowner sent a larger group of his servants to collect for him, but the results were the same.

“Finally, the owner sent his son, thinking, ‘Surely they will respect my son.’

“But when the tenant farmers saw his son coming, they said to one another, ‘Here comes the heir to this estate. Come on, let’s kill him and get the estate for ourselves!’  So they grabbed him, dragged him out of the vineyard, and murdered him.

“When the owner of the vineyard returns,” Jesus asked, “What do you think he will do to those farmers?”

The religious leaders replied, “He will put the wicked men to a horrible death and lease the vineyard to others who will give him his share of the crop after each harvest.”

In the resurrection, Israel is transfigured from a lost nation state, long cast into the dustbin of history, into the Kingdom of God – the Kingdom of Heaven inherent in the divine person of Jesus. In the days after His resurrection and ascension into heaven, and when the Holy Spirit had manifested itself to His disciples as He said He would, this new mustard seed of a “nation” would simply be called “The Way.”  Founded upon a man named Peter who Jesus affectionately called “The Rock,” it would eventually become that great tree called the Catholic Church. He goes on to explain it to them thusly:

"I tell you, the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a nation that will produce the proper fruit.  Anyone who stumbles over that stone will be broken to pieces, and it will crush anyone it falls on.”  

When the leading priests and Pharisees heard this parable, they realized he was telling the story against them—they were the wicked farmers. They wanted to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowds, who considered Jesus to be a prophet.

Now we are beginning to see the power of The Story.  God does not save us within history but within this story that is encapsulated inside it, yet also transcends it.  It is similar to the way He becomes for us both high priest and unblemished sacrifice.  It is a mystery beyond our comprehension, and He cares not if we understand, but only that we believe. 

Heaven and the earth will pass away, but The Story is eternal, and woe be to whomever He tells The Story against.  In the end, The Story yet untold is that of His Kingdom that exists but is not of this world.  This Story is the Eternal Testament.  It begins where the Book of Revelation ends, when the New Jerusalem descends.

And when the real, historical Earth has become nothing but a hole in the empty void, this is The Story that will remain to tell the remarkable tale of what once happened here.

Thanks for listening.  Remember to check out the program notes for Program 2 at radionewjerusalem.com. This is Chaplain Phil wishing you a good night and God’s blessings.

Closing

Featured clips tonight were from Firesign Theater’s Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him, and Red Planet Mars, produced by Melaby Pictures and distributed by United Artists.  Special thanks to my musical guests tonight from the fabulous 40’s, the equally fabulous Dinning Sisters, who lightened up the heavy with “Aunt Hagar’s Children’s Blues” and “Pig Foot Pete.” Join me next time when I’ll present the next chapter in The Story: The Story of Eden.  Good night, everyone!      


Endnotes



[i] Nolan, Albert, Jesus before Christianity, 25th Anniversary Edition, Orbis Books, Maryknoll, NY, 2001, p. 11.

 

[ii] White, Ellen G., The Desire of Ages, Pacific Press Publishing Association, 1940, p. 9.

 

[iii] Sheen, Fulton J., Life of Christ, McGraw Hill Book Company, New York, 1958, p. 24.

 

[iv] “From its simplicity of form, the cross has been used both as a religious symbol and as an ornament, from the dawn of man’s civilization. Various objects, dating from periods long anterior to the Christian era, have been found, marked with crosses of different designs, in almost every part of the old world. India, Syria, Persia and Egypt have all yielded numberless examples, while numerous instances, dating from the later Stone Age to Christian times, have been found in nearly every part of Europe. The use of the cross as a religious symbol in pre-Christian times, and among non-Christian peoples, may probably be regarded as almost universal, and in very many cases it was connected with some form of nature worship,” Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th ed., pg. 506.

 

[v] The truth is that the Pharisees did hate Jesus, and He rightly isn’t known for showing them a great deal of grace. He called them out for their hypocrisy. He exposed their inner tombs. But the hatred they felt for Him wasn’t mere sour grapes at His approval rating, nor was it as principled as mere evil versus good. It was rather more craven. They hated Jesus not because He called them names, but because He threatened their security, prestige and income. He was going to ruin everything they had worked so hard for, and getting everybody killed.  Why Did the Pharisees Hate Jesus So Much? https://www.ligonier.org/blog/why-did-pharisees-hate-jesus-so-much/

 

[vi] The Great Pyramid of Giza lies at the mid-point of the earth’s longest lines of latitude and longitude, which places it at the exact geographical center of the planet.  For this reason, the Near East has always been the crossroads to the rest of the world, and this explains its strategic importance.  Jerusalem in particular is often referred to as the “city at the center of the earth” and this was particularly true at the time of the Davidic Kingdom, when Israel ruled all of Palestine and controlled the trade routes to the rest of the world that passed through the Holy City. 

 

[vii] 3. The Life of Jesus of Nazareth – “Whether you are a Christian or not, you cannot honestly say that the life of Jesus of Nazareth did not dramatically impact history. If you follow the dating system that we use today, you acknowledge his impact. This article is published in 2010 A.D. because approximately 2010 years ago, Jesus lived in Israel. At the time of his life, it might not have seen so dramatic to the world at large. He never traveled more than a few days' journey from his hometown. It was only after he left earth that his teachings spread beyond his homeland and began to cause trouble for the ruling power of the time: Rome. When Roman rulers began to persecute the followers of Jesus, Christians, his life really began to ripple out around the globe. Over time, Christianity was accepted by the Roman rulers, which allowed it to spread even further. Today, Christianity is one of the largest religions of the world. Jesus set off an atomic religious bomb that is still felt today.”  This article is from a secular website which was at least balanced enough to rate the life of Jesus one of the top 10 most important events in history.  My claim here that Jesus is the Son of God and God Incarnate means his death represents an act of deicide.  The killing of God in Jesus, and the bizarre events that accompanied it, seems to me to be a slam dunk to achieve the rank of number one as the most dramatic event in history. – Chaplain Phil    

Links in Text

Introduction Segement 1 Segment 2 Segment 3 Closing
Introduction

(64) Firesign Theater - Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him (1968) (Complete Album) - YouTube
(59) Red Planet Mars 1952 - YouTube


Segement 1: The Desire of Ages: A Prehistory of the Cross

Assumption University (Windsor, Ontario) - Wikipedia
The Gospel According to Albert Nolan
A New Assumption
Jesus Before Christianity:
Albert Nolan: 9781570754043 - Christianbook.com
Some Messianic Expectations - Livius
Blood of Jesus
Jesus the Lamb of God
Ancient Israel
Atonement Moses - Ancient History Encyclopedia
Genesis 22: 10-13 RSV - Then Abraham put forth his hand, and - Bible Gateway
2.1.2 Binding of Isaac Abraham
GOD THE FATHER
Jesus of Nazareth — the Christ - BibelCenter Studies
Che Guevara - Facts, Death & Biography - HISTORY
Priesthood of Melchizedek - Wikipedia
Father Albert Nolan (1934 - ) | The Presidency Apocryphal Gospels
Four Reasons the New Testament Gospels Are Reliable (Free Bible Insert) | Cold Case Christianity
Scholarship and Christian Faith: Enlarging the Conversation - Douglas Jacobsen, Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen - Google Books
Primary source - Wikipedia
Secondary source - Wikipedia
Early Church Fathers
Who Were the 12 Apostles? | ReasonableTheology.org
Zealot: The Life And Times Of Jesus Of Nazareth By Reza Aslan (EXCERPT) | HuffPost
Judaism in the Time of Jesus
Jesus the Revolutionary: A Q&A With Reza Aslan | The Nation
JOHN DOMINIC CROSSAN ON JESUS AS FOOD FOR DOGS : Apprising Ministries
The Holy Scriptures are Like Christ: Truly Divine and Truly Human | Paul T. McCain | First Things
A Look at the Early Church - AD 1-300 Church History Timeline
The Conversion of Constantine and the Ascent of Christianity - Video & Lesson Transcript | Study.com
Is Western Civilization Uniquely Bad? - Quillette
Matthew 28:19 RSV - Go therefore and make disciples of all - Bible Gateway
Cdl. Burke on Amazon Synod Working Document: ‘Apostasy’
The Amazon synod organisers are at odds with Pope Francis - CatholicCitizens.org
Christian culture - Wikipedia
Messianic Secret - Wikipedia
The Evidence: The Roman Catholic Church Protects Priests That Abuse Children » Stop Abuse Campaign
Luke 8:17 EHV - For nothing is hidden that will not be - Bible Gateway
In Midst of Crisis, Stay in the Barque of Peter
Postchristianity - Wikipedia
RMS Titanic - Wikipedia History of Western civilization - Wikipedia
THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST
Art Bell Legacy
Urban Dictionary: The Quickening
The History of the Christian Cross - WorldAtlas.com
The Cross: Christian Banner or Pagan Relic?
Ellen G. White - Wikipedia
Life of Christ - Life-of-Christ-Fulton-J.-Sheen.pdf
Genesis 3:21 NOG - Yahweh Elohim made clothes from animal - Bible Gateway
The Christian Cross Is Pagan! – The Simple Answers
Christian views on Hell - Wikipedia
Garden of Eden - Ancient History Encyclopedia
Epoch | Definition of Epoch by Merriam-Webster
Evil One - Wiktionary
The true meaning of Paganism | Ancient Origins
Jesus, Creator and Savior | Thinking on Scripture
The One True God | Catholic Answers
The Fall of Satan and the Victory of Christ Sunday school - Wikipedia
Baltimore Catechism - Wikipedia History of Ancient Israel
Playing With Fire? The Rise of the Neo-Pagans
Are We Living in a Post-Christian World?
Bible prophecy - Wikipedia
Prophesy Against the Nations – Chapter 1
How the pseudoscience of Social Darwinism nearly destroyed humanity
CPGB: Fascist Imperialism
Eugenics - Wikipedia
Racism - Wikipedia
List of time periods - Wikipedia
Animism, Polytheism and Monotheism - earth_lesson_6a_presentation.pdf
Social Darwinism - HISTORY
Scientism Is Wrong; Is It Evil, Too? | Evolution News
Mesopotamian Creation Myths | Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Patriarchs | The Bible Timeline
The Rise And Fall Of The Nation Of Israel Timeline | Precedent
Cross of Jesus
Dinning Sisters: Aunt Hagar’s Children’s Blues


Segment 2: The Cross: Center Stage in the Cosmic Passion Play

Ultimate Reality
Passion play - New World Encyclopedia
What Is the Meaning of Immanuel?
The Messiah
The Messiah would be the Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father and Prince of Peace – Jews for Jesus
What does “Christ” actually mean? | Our Rabbi Jesus
Jesus Son of God
Jesus of Nazareth
Who Were the High Priest's Annas and Caiaphas?
John 19:7 RSV - The Jews answered him, “We have a - Bible Gateway
Biblical cosmology - Wikipedia
A report from the cutting edge of physics, in layman's terms | Article | The United States Army
Dark Ages (historiography) - Wikipedia
Ten Things the Ancients Did Better than Us | Ancient Origins
Once, the ‘Judeo-Christian tradition’ united Americans. Now it divides them. - The Washington Post
Monotheism of the Ancient Hebrews: Evolved, Invented, Stolen or Revealed? – Jews for Jesus
The God Of Abraham, Isaac, And Jacob | Bible.org
King David
Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy) - Wikipedia
Jerusalem - The center of the world!! - Evidence for God from Science
Ancient Greece - Wikipedia
Israel's Golden Age | United Church of God
Pederasty in ancient Greece - Wikipedia
The Pattern of Sexual Politics: Feminism, Homosexuality and Pedophilia: Journal of Homosexuality: Vol 37, No 2
We're at the end of white Christian America. What will that mean? | US news | The Guardian
Ancient Israel Taught the World New Ways to Dream
Why Scientism is False
25 of the Scariest Science Experiments Ever Conducted
John1:1 RSV - The Word Became Flesh - In the - Bible Gateway
Advance of the Scientific Worldview
CERN Being Utilized to Unlock the Bottomless Pit of Revelation 9! What Is in the Pit? Horrifying Truth Revealed! (Includes Videos) – The Light in the dark place
Home | CERN
The father of modern physics - Maths Careers
Parallel Universes: Theories & Evidence | Space
How the Universe Came to Be: The Bible and Science Finally in Accord? | Ancient Origins
Big Bang Theory
We Live in a Cosmic Void, Another Study Confirms | Space
New Theory Suggests Parallel Universes Interact With And Affect Our Own Universe | IFLScience
Christian mysticism - Wikipedia
Ernest Holmes as a Creation Spirituality Mystic — Welcome from Matthew Fox
The Best Protection Against Demons and Evil Spirits
Hell as a Parallel Dimension in the Realm of Dark Matter - Sakro Sawel
(60) IOG Orlando - "Satan The Devil & His Minions: The Fallen Sons of the Morning" - YouTube
Praying for God's Protection - Katherine Walden
What Demons Want to Do to You - Pathway to Victory with Dr. Robert Jeffress
How To Become A Master Of The Dark Arts | Higgypop
The Veil Is Thin and Getting Thinner.... - Ask-Angels.com
The Bible and Cosmology Sts. Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Archangels
Do you believe in Magic part 29|Lucifer in the Vatican
Weapons for battle: the use of sacramentals (holy water, blessed salt, crucifixes) in the Christian life – Mama Needs Coffee
Why the Catholic Church's Current Crisis Is the Worst Since the Reformation
Understanding a Cesspool of Corruption, by Thomas A. Droleskey, Christ or Chaos, August 27, 2006
Episcopal Sodomy: Communist Homosexual Infiltrators
Microsoft Word - Freemasons and the Conciliar Church.rtf - freemasons.pdf
Bella Dodd's 'Prophecy' of Communist Tactics in Infiltrating the Church - Catholicism.org
Why Clerical Corruption Does Not Justify Apostasy - Crisis Magazine
Lucifer is enthroned in the Catholic Church. | PRESS Core
The Large Hadron Collider | CERN
Maha Shivratri: Why world's largest particle physics lab CERN has a statue of Lord Shiva
Shiva - Ancient History Encyclopedia
SivaSakti | Shiva – The God of Destruction
Hinduism - Wikipedia Gods of Hinduism - Brahma, the Creator
Journal of Cosmology
Baal Worship—The Battle for the Israelites’ Hearts — Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY
shiva_4.jpg (JPEG Image, 1000 × 679 pixels) - Scaled (93%)
Mandela Effect - Alternate Realities
Alternate reality - Wikipedia
(59) Red Planet Mars 1952 - YouTube
Space exploration as it was imagined in the '50s - The Verge
SPURRING ECONOMIC GROWTH AND COMPETITIVENESS THROUGH NASA–DERIVED TECHNOLOGIES
Wormhole-Stargates: Tunneling Through The Cosmic Neighborhood
NASA: Apollo Missions
Zeppelin - Wikipedia
Autogyro - Wikipedia
MUFON - Recent UFO Sightings | Daily Alien News & Encounters
The Reality Behind 'Earth vs. the Flying Saucers' | Mysterious Universe
The Extraterrestrial Presence in the World Today - Alien Races on Earth
The Devil in Disguise: Are UFOs and Aliens "Evil?" | Mysterious Universe
The state of man in fallen nature
The Dinning Sisters: Pig Foot Pete


Segment 3: The Cross: The Axis Mundi of History

Genealogies of Genesis - Wikipedia
Book of the Covenant
Genesis 1 - In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Th… | ESV.org
Book of Revelation - Read, Study Bible Verses Online
The View From the Cross
Union with Christ - Wikipedia
Matthew 27:51-52 RSVCE - And behold, the curtain of the temple - Bible Gateway
The King on the Cross | Reformed Bible Studies & Devotionals at Ligonier.org
Revelation 4 GW - A Vision of God’s Throne in Heaven - Bible Gateway
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Son of God
Christ the only Saviour
How Did St. Michael Defeat Satan? - Philip Kosloski
The Origin of Death | Truth About Death
God the Father
What Does the Bible Say About Defeated Death Hell And The Grave?
The Eternal Sacrifice: Christ Whole and Entire - By Joe Tremblay
Adoration of the Mystical Lamb
1 Peter 1:19 RSV - but with the precious blood of Christ, - Bible Gateway
Revelation 22:13 NIV - I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First - Bible Gateway
What does INRI mean? --Aleteia
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pontius Pilate
John 18:36 RSVCE - Jesus answered, “My kingship is not - Bible Gateway
Davidic line - Wikipedia
Israel’s King Messiah The Son of God
Graeco-Roman paganism - Wikipedia
Why Did God Choose Jerusalem To Be The City Of God?
What does it mean that Jesus is prophet, priest, and king? | GotQuestions.org
Son of God
Hebrew Streams: Yeshua bar Abba: Barabbas
e530c8d98f3f2096665f31d830fd686c.jpg (JPEG Image, 707 × 1024 pixels)
Jesus and the Priests | Mark 14:53-72 | RayStedman.org
Antipater the Idumaean - Wikipedia
Who Were the Religious Leaders of Jesus's Day?
Parable of the Wicked Tenants
Matthew 21: 33-45 RSVCE - The Parable of the Wicked Tenants - Bible Gateway
The Kingdom of God – doctrine.org
Resurrection of Jesus - Wikipedia
Ascension of Jesus - Wikipedia
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Heaven
Who is the Holy Spirit? | The Bible Project
Peter the Rock | Catholic Answers » Priest, Victim and Sacrifice
Revelation 21,22 NIV - A New Heaven and a New Earth - Then I - Bible Gateway
What does the Bible say about the New Jerusalem?
New Jerusalem - Life, Hope & Truth
Matthew 21:33-46 NLT - Parable of the Evil Farmers - “Now - Bible Gateway


Closing

Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him - Wikipedia
Red Planet Mars - Wikipedia
The Dinning Sisters | Biography & History | AllMusic