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Few would acknowledge, given the state of our society's technological expertise, that our understanding of history could be significantly inaccurate.
During and after my years in Seminary and during my early years of my pastorate, I became interested in the deeper hidden origins of Christianity and decided to do some further reading on the "famous Rabbi Yehoshua" from a Jewish perspective. Reading "outside the box" and "Christian viewpoint" I found, much to my dismay, that there was no historical evidence of this Rabbi Yehoshua outside the New Testament from the time in which he was supposed to have live. I was shocked to find that there is absolutely no unaltered or unforged historical evidence that Jesus, Joseph or Mary ever existed, let alone that Joseph was a carpenter or that Jesus was born in Bethlehem and lived in Nazareth. Amazing to me is that the more I studied the more that I encountered unbelievable parallels to the "the Jesus Story" throughout most of these ancient nations and their religious literature from Egypt own down to the emergence of Greece and Rome. It seemed that the story of "Jesus" had been told almost identically over and over again for thousands of years prior to his assumed historical birth.
Answer for yourself: If Jesus was not an historical person, where did the whole New Testament story come from in the first place? As my studies finally took me to Egypt I found the genesis or core of all later "Jesus Stories" when I encountered the Osiris, Isis, and Horus myth. As shown on prior websites of this ministry the very basis for the "Jesus Stories" we find in the New Testament are the personifications of the Sun in its path through the Heavens and the Zodiac. From these observations of the moments of these orbs by the Ancients patterns and cycles and laws were recognized and represented in the form of legends and myths to capture for all time the hidden message in such movements of the Creator as He wrote on the blackboard of the Sky. But here was more. What I found as well is that among these Ancient myths and legends, mixed in with this "Osiris-Jesus" story we find the shadow of a historical truth that goes all the way back to Egypt as well. I discovered that if you want to find the "historical Jesus" then you have to look to Egypt once again and the Pharaohs of the 18th dynasty. This will become plain to the reader as we study the 18th dynasty and see how the truths surrounding it, although jumbled today, can be sorted out and in so doing we find the true historical reference to a "King Jesus" hidden in Ancient Pharaonic history. Let us see this unfold as we study.
Answer for yourself: Have you ever noticed the similarities between the two Biblical stories involving Moses, Joshua (Jesus), a mountain, and a tabernacles; one in the Old Testament and one in the New Testament? First of all we need to understand that the word "Joshua" and "Jesus" are interchangeable. That being said then we need to ask which on the surface appears to be a "far out" question. Could these two stories be "doublets" or be regarded as different versions of the same events?
Answer for yourself: What is a Biblical doublet? In literature dealing with Biblical rhetorical structures, doublets are usually referred to as rhetorical parallelism or synonymous parallelism which is characteristic of the Hebraic language.
Most of our readers will more than likely jump the gun and say without a doubt that these New Testament and Old Testament "doublets" are different historical stories separated by great lengths of time and assume that I have lost my mind. But I assure you that there is more here than meets the eye at first glance. Let us see the evidence.
In the New Testament account of the Transfiguration if recorded for us in Matt. 17:1-5
Matt 17:1-5 1 And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, 2 And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. 3 And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him. 4 Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. 5 While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him. (KJV)
Understanding that these stories come from oral traditions before they are recorded we will take only a second to refer the reader to our "Jesus-Astrotheology" website where the astronomy behind such events and its personification is described beyond any doubt. But for our purposes here we will deal with the events as an assumed historical event. Thus we are led to believe that the New Testament Jesus took the disciples Peter, James and John to a high mountain where "he was transfigured before them" and they saw him talking with Moses and Elias (Elijah). We also see that Peter suggested that the disciples should make three tabernacles, one each for Jesus, Moses and Elijah.
Answer for yourself: Does this bring to mind an earlier story of the Old Testament Moses who also was "transfigured" before his people as well? It should. The Old Testament account is the one that relates how Moses received the Ten Commandments of the Lord on Mount Sinai, the holy mountain in the wilderness.
According to the Bible, for three months the Israelites camped at the foot of Mount Sinai following the Exodus. The Book of Exodus relates for the reader that Moses was summoned to meet the Lord on the mountain to receive tablets of stone bearing the Ten Commandments:
Exod 24:13 13 And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of God. (KJV)
In Moses absence the Israelites are said to have gathered together all their earrings and made a golden calf and worshipped it. As they descended from Mount Sinai, Moses and Joshua heard the noise of the subsequent celebrations and Joshua commented:
Exod 32:15-18 15 And Moses turned, a