God had to bring his Messiah into the world as a human, and he had to give his appearance strict criteria so that he would have to fulfill the many aspects of that criteria to even qualify to present himself as God's "anointed one". An important part of that criteria was his covenant with Abraham to have the 'seed' come through his family lineage. Abraham was blessed to be the progenitor of the Messiah's seed. Who knew what his family would be like? Did Abraham? He died feeling blessed and he looked forward to his reward and the future blessings of Messiah's coming Kingdom. (Hebrews 11:8-10)
The strict appearance you note is part and parcel of the hidden-ness of God’s “anointer.” And to see the truth of God’s anointer requires the ability and willingness to unite pagan symbols, Jewish symbol, and Christian symbols, in a more perfect union. And that can’t and won’t occur where religious cliques form orthodoxies designed to make Jehovah’s Witnesses, Baptists, Catholics, or Jews, the “chosen ones,” apart from, and without, their bosom brothers and sisters.
Case in point. “Messiah” isn’t the “anointed one,” but the one who anoints. And you can’t know that without knowing Judaism 101 and to some extent pagan precedents, since the word “anoint” comes first from pagan precedent, and is then transformed in Judaism to speak of “Messiah” (a Hebrew word associated with “anointing”).
First to the pagan precedent (that
preseeded Judaism).
In the ancient phallic-cults, the tribal god always fathered a bride’s firstborn son through
jus primae noctis. He got first dibs. Only then were her subsequent offspring conceived through the intercourse between her and her human groom. In the pagan rituals, the bride went to the temple as a wedding ritual. She entered the most holy place where a phallic organ existed in the “bedchamber” of the temple (made of wood, metal, or stone). It was lubricated with holy oil (
semen שמן) so she could deflower herself on the salubrious divine organ signifying that her firstborn son would be a priest, a son, of the tribal deity.
In Hebrew, the same word can be used for “hand” and “phallus” (
yad יד) so that for a woman’s womb to be sanctified by god, or God, it must, in every case, even in the pagan religions, have the veil to her temple opened by the
yad of God. Any woman whose virginity isn’t broken by the
yad of God is a prostitute or whore, unfaithful, to God and her husband. She births only Nephilim, the fallen. In the ancient phallic cults, the flower of virginity was always, typologically at least, ritually, opened by god. Only by this sanctified opening of the veil of the biological temple (by the
yad of god) was the womb properly christened such that everything that comes out of it from henceforth is sanctified.
Now to Judaism.
In Exodus 13:2 god says, sanctify unto me all who open a closed womb; they are mine. Which is to say Judaism follows the prototype of the phallic cults. And in fact, to this very day, Jews and Judaism ritualize the
jus primae noctis of god by the ritual of
pidyon haben, whereby the parents of the firstborn Jewish male purchase him out of his servitude to god’s priesthood. To this very day Jews practice rituals (
pidyon haben) that center around the idea of the
jus primae noctis of the tribal deity.
But Judaism is different. And as Professor Nahum Sarna stated the case, you must know the pre-Jewish rituals to have a background with which to interpret the Jewish rituals, which, the Jewish rituals, don’t come wholesale from a whole-cloth, but are innovations on the universal type.
Case in point. Whereas the pagans “anoint” the phallus of the deity in the holy place of the temple, so that the tribal god’s firstborn is the “anointed” son of the mother (and the “anointed” son of the first mother is the tribal messiah), in ancient Judaism the bridegroom is circumcised symbolizing a non-phallic conception rather than a conception conceived by a different phallus, the phallus of the tribal deity.
In the Jewish ritual, the
yad of God is already in the temple, the womb, so that rather than the
yad of God opening the veil from the outside in, as in the pagan ritual, the
yad of God opens the veil from the inside out, virgin birth; and does so not at the point of conception, ala the pagans divine
yad in the bedchamber of the temple, but by the hand of God, the nails in the hand of God, at birth. For this reason, we can know that the Jewish divine son is not an “anointed one,” whose conception is from the anointing oil שמן used to make the divine phallus salubrious, but rather, the Jewish divine son is the “anointer.” He will anoint all of his offspring not with oil, or
semen שמן but with blood. He will father his offspring not through the pagan process, phallic sex, but through the true Jewish process, the blood of sacrifice.
Someone will suppose this is all just hyperbole, or imaginative twisting of the truth of scripture. But they will be wrong since if they knew anything about the scripture, Judaism, Hebrew, and the foundation of the Gospels and the Apostolic writings, they would know that by Jewish law, the law of the Torah, the would-be king is never “anointed,” unless he doesn’t inherit his crown, title, and authority, from his father as the firstborn. David was anointed because he wasn’t the firstborn. But Messiah is the firstborn. He can’t be the “anointed one” since the firstborn who inherits the title isn’t anointed. Messiah is neither anointed, nor can he be anointed, since he's God’s firstborn son who inherits his title through his firstborn status, a status that's never, by law, through anointing.
John
