Nazarene

And the Essene title kind of is a blanket term with all these sects underneath it.

One of them being the Nazarenes.

So you've probably heard Jesus the Nazarene or you've heard Jesus of Nazareth, right? Yep.

So this was a big revelation during the time of making my film, Christ Spiracy.

um either preparing and amping everybody up to you know to that bloodlust and that adrenaline to go to war or they were celebrations after war most of the

time they were killing a lot like in the temple in his film he goes out there and he's looking for where the blood would come through and it's a whole like you're walking through the you can walk through where the blood would flow through it was such a big thing so there was like blood up to the knees they were just slaughtering so many animals

yeah so so check it out so This is a big mistranslation on who Jesus is, right? we've heard him called jesus of nazareth i mean we know jesus christ and all this but his common like historical term that everybody says there's a whole film from the 70s it's like one of the biggest jesus films ever called jesus of nazareth but that's actually a misnomer because if you look at the original greek that the gospels were written in it's either jesus the nazarene or jesus the nazarene which are just two different forms of the same kind of sectarian designation so What we're led to believe and why it's translated as Jesus of Nazareth in our English is because it's this way of disassociating the Nazarenes from this sectarian movement that was happening in the wilderness to just someone who came from Nazareth.

It's like, oh, Dan the American.

They laid before the governor their case against Paul, and when he had been summoned, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, "'Since through you we enjoy much peace, and since by your foresight, most excellent Felix, reforms are being made for this nation in every way and everywhere, we accept this with all gratitude.

But to detain you no further, I beg you in your kindness to hear us briefly.' For we have found this man a plague, one who stirs up riots among all the Jews throughout the world, and is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

He even tried to profane the temple, but we seized him.

By examining him yourself, you will be able to find out from him about everything of which we accuse him.

So he's asking up front, being...

the niceties, being very gracious, very appreciative to him, asking, would you please hear us out as we make this case against Paul? Verse five, for we have found this man a plague, a creator of dissension among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

Now, what does he mean, the sect of the Nazarenes? Well, by and large, in Jerusalem especially, all the believers in Jesus were Jewish people.

but they were of the sect.

They were Jews, but they were of a sect of the Jews, of the Nazarenes.

Why would they be called the Nazarenes? Because Jesus was Jesus of Nazareth.

He came from Nazareth.

So the sect of the Nazarenes, but notice they didn't cease to be Jewish.

So now the final piece of all that puzzle that I'm getting to with this whole fast food thing you just said is there's this text called the Clementine literature, which is about a fourth century text in its most early form that we have, but it's preserving sermons of the apostle Peter all the way back to the first century scholars.

Like this is fresh scholarship and they're all showing that, that it's matching this text talked about by the church fathers early on as this travels of Peter or preachings of Peter that the Nazarenes used.

And you know what Peter says in there? It's called the Clementine homilies.

It's written down by Clement, the same guy who wrote the first and second Clement in our Bible.

And what have we been doing to them, and are still doing? If we did indeed love our enemies, if even now we began to love our enemies, the Japanese, we would have no enemy.

Therefore, however strange it may appear to those occupied with military plans, preparations, diplomatic considerations, administrative, financial, economical measures, revolutionary, socialistic propaganda, and various unnecessary sciences by which they think to save mankind from its calamities, The deliverance of man, not only from the calamities of war, but also from all the calamities which men inflict upon themselves, will take place not through emperors or kings instituting peace alliances, not through those who would dethrone emperors, kings, or restrain them by constitutions, or substitute republics for monarchies, not by peace conferences not by the realization of socialistic programs not by victories or defeats on land or sea not by libraries or universities nor by those futile mental exercises which are now called science but only by there being more and more of those simple men who, like the Ducobors, Drogin, Olkovic in Russia, the Nazarenes in Austria, Condatier in France, Tervey in Holland, and others, having placed as their object not external alterations of life, but the closest fulfilment in themselves of the will of Him who has sent them into life, will direct all their powers to this realisation.

Only such people, realizing the kingdom of God in themselves, in their souls, will establish, without directly aiming at this purpose, that external kingdom of God which every human soul is longing for.

Salvation will come to pass only in this one way and not in any other.