What Did Napoleon Bonaparte Say About Jesus?

Napoleon I (1769 -1821) was the emperor of France and one of the greatest military commanders of all time. Napoleon knew about shaping history!

"I know men and I tell you that Jesus Christ is no mere man. Between him and every other person in the world there is no possible term of comparison. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I founded empires but on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force.

Jesus Christ founded His empire upon love; and at this hour millions of people would die for Him." 2

"Everything in Christ astonishes me. His spirit overawes me, and His will confounds me ... I search in vain in history to find the similar to Jesus Christ, or anything that can approach the gospel." 3

1 Quoted from "Napoleon I," Microsoft (R) Encarta. Copyright (c) 1994 Microsoft Corporation. Copyright (c) 1994 Funk & Wagnall's Corporation.
2 Josh McDowell, Evidence That Demands a Verdict, Here's Life Publishers, San Bernardino, 25th printing, June 1986, page 127.
3 Josh McDowell, Evidence That Demands a Verdict, ibid, page 106.

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The "NAZARITE"

Jesus, Our Nazarite in Heaven

Jesus was placed in that failed town of Nazareth, as a testament. That we can grow wherever God has planted us. Environment, misfortune, ruin and degradation - all can be overcome! Jesus brought once more, great light to that special secluded mountaintop village. Once again the hills reverberated with Psalms of joy, peace, restoration, hope, truth and love, through the voice of One Who creates - Who can and has re-formed the clay. It was Jesus Who brought spirit and life             back into those darkened surroundings (Isa.9:2-3).+

The villagers all benefited from His presence there, when Jesus a boy and young man worked as carpenter side by side with His adopted father, Joseph. Many a times, the neighbors were blessed by 
His sweet lilting voice that, even the birds hushed to hear Him sing. Heavy burdens were lifted off bent backs, as spirits soared, catching in the distance, His melodious tunes wafting through the air, as a cooling breeze upon a sweltering summer day.

Did Jesus then think of the strong-man Samson (that misguided Nazarite) redeeming Israel at the 
last, by the pulling down of the two pillars he was tied to; and who willingly ending his life for the redemption of his people, Israel?

Did Jesus ever think that He would one day hang between "two pillars" as He contemplated eternity, suffering the wrath of God as a sinner, and the giving of His life for the redemption of His people Israel - just as did the strong-man Samson? (Judges 16:23-31).


The "two pillars" were then as 2 crosses, symbols of the unrepentant Jewish Nation on one side, and the repentant Jewish Woman Church on the other - of which both represent 2 pillars of God's Church. (Old & New Testament, the "Two Witnesses" of Revelation 11)

OR, did Jesus think of that faithful prophet and high priest Samuel, a Nazarite, ruling as the representative of the Heavenly King and God upon His throne? And How that ancient race rejected Him [God's pre-incarnate Son] as King and opted for an earthly substitute, the Old Testament Saul, of the Benjamin tribe. Was Jesus now going to be in that position (He thought) as a Prophet Who came in His Father's name, but rejected as King? After all, Jesus was just a boy, in a town called "Nazareth"-was that important, He thought? (1Samuel 8:4-7)

The proper noun "Nazarite" comes from the Hebrew word "nazir" meaning "consecrated" or "separated." Did Jesus know that He was the Lamb "separated" from the fold to be "consecrated" for sacrifice? YES - Jesus' Spirit was awakened, at the age of 12 (the age of manhood*) when He witnessed His first "Passover" lamb sacrificed. As the lamb lay upon the altar, the high priest took a sharp knife, quickly slitting the innocent victims throat, and catching the copious flow of blood into a large bowl. It was then that Jesus saw the high priest as he disappeared into the holy place, to sprinkle this offering of blood upon the furniture, as an offering of redemption for the people.

Jesus did clearly see that He was that "Lamb slain from the foundation of the world," an offering of substitution for man - for though He was 12 (a man now), He stated to His guardians Mary and Joseph, "I must be about My Father's business"! Yet still His young mind only comprehended that one day He too would lay upon the altar of sacrifice, as His throat would be slit with a sharp knife. Who could blame Jesus for thinking that this type of death would be His lot? Even that of a mature mind would most likely think the same. Regardless, with just this type of death Jesus had envisioned for Himself... It still sent chills down His young spine! Little did He grasp the true horror of it all! (Exodus 12:1-8).

Jesus was also fond of calling Himself "Son of man." Where did Jesus get this title? Was it from Ezekiel, who also appeared to have taken the vow of the Nazarite. Ezekiel was the only human (almost) in the Old Testament to have this title "son of man" conferred upon him by God, with the exception of just once to Daniel (in Dan.8:17). And then in Daniel 7:13, only once was the pre-incarnate Christ described as such, in all the Old Testament. Other than that, there were only 13 other nondescript references scattered throughout Psalms, and in Numbers, Job, Isaiah and Jeremiah - none attached with special significance, other than loosely applying to the human race, in general. The rest were in respect to Ezekiel, and you may count 93 places where God personally called Ezekiel, "son of man"! (Which was just about in every chapter). In fact, it would seem an unlikely title for Jesus Christ, as He IS the Son of GOD, and most definitely not as impotent as the FOLLOWING Psalm would indicate:

"Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help" (Psalm 146:3).
So, why would Jesus be inclined to call Himself, "Son of man"? It appears that considering Daniel 7:13 is the only actual reference to Him as "the Son of man," this was not alone the deciding factor - in that, Jesus would apply any biblical reference to the test of Isaiah 28:9-10, whereby we are admonished to lock in Biblical text meaning with "precept upon precept, line upon line."

SO, WITH THAT IN MINDJesus would have most certainly referenced Ezekiel. Did Jesus see Ezekiel, as a Nazarite Who resembled Himself, and with respect to the coming siege upon the Jewish Nation in 70 AD?

•"And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.
•Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.
•Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts. Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.

•Thus saith the Lord God; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her. And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.
•Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;
•Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations" (Ezekiel 5:1-11, read also to v.17 KJV). 

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Once you understand fully what it means that Adam and Eve were made in God's Image, and connect the vision of Adam's form to that of describing God's Son, before His incarnation - a formidable fiery-red figure (set forth in Ezekiel 1:27) Who led Israel through the long desert; And that Eve's form represents that of The Father (the blue sapphire pavement of Ezekiel 1:27 & Exodus 24:10), with the long veil or "train" that filled up His throne-room (as Isaiah 6:1 tells us). 

Then you may grasp why it is that Jesus wore His hair as that of a train, or bridal veil upon His head. Yet, where is that "rainbow" Nation representing the "bow" of The Holy Spirit, stretched across the figures of Father and Son, described in Ezekiel 1:28 - OR Eve and Adam in their Garden, as that of Jesus in Revelation 10:1?
PLEASE STAY TUNED FOR more info on this Holy Spirit Nation, in a future "Post."

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God's Son was already revealed in the Old Testament, now it was time for His Father to be revealed. And that part required that He wear the long hair of a Nazarite, as would a woman described by Paul in 1 Corinthians 11. But Christ was also there as Himself in physical form - just as Adam had been present and had contributed a piece of himself, in order for Eve to be revealed.

Adam had carried within his body the DNA for Woman. For he had both the "Y" and "X" chromosomes of the male and female (so Adam was the first Nazarite). Nevertheless, Adam had to be put to sleep in order that Woman could be totally revealed, as her train of locks fully unfurled about her feet, filling the space around her. Christ was put to sleep, in order for Woman Church to be visualized, as coming from within Christ, Who is the Last Adam (2nd Man-1 Corin 15:47-49); and in order to represent The Father, in the closing hours of the "day," so that Woman Church would follow in His footsteps exactly, that she may receive "His Father's name in ...[her] forehead," as her veil fully envelopes her form (Rev,14:1).

Now imagine that the last 6,000 years is as a long day. And that long day is the creation of Adam, then Eve/Woman, "the mother of every father's family" (Gen.3:20-21). Adam was created first, and called "the son of God" (Luke 3:38). His creation is a representation of God's Son. Then note that God walks a long time with Adam in the garden, Eden. God shows Adam all the rivers and treasures. He then shows him all the trees, including the forbidden tree, and the tree of life. Adam even gets to name the animals - And 2/3rds of the day is gone, before Adam even notices that he is missing something - an "help-meet."

The last 1/3rd of the day is spent building Woman, in order that Adam might meet His bride, marry her and discover their "nakedness," - all before the sun sets in the horizon on another day (Gen.2:7-25). Adam's sleep, after 2/3rds of the day was gone, marked Jesus' sleep, after 2/3rds of our history had past (4,031 years hence). It has taken nearly another 1/3rd (2,014 years) of history to pass, as Woman Church nears her completion date - will it really be another 17 years, before Woman finally is ready to meet her husband? And is it JUST Jesus that she must meet, before He comes to tie the proverbial knot?

AND FINALLY - where is The Holy Spirit represented in all this - shouldn't there be another Nation out there by now? Then it is hidden - just as The Holy Spirit has been hidden from "plain" view, ever since sin entered the picture. If He is NOT hidden, then why is it we are like Adam and Eve - still wearing just "Lamb" skins to cover our "nakedness"? The 144,000 will have the token evidences of the Holy Spirit - a glow even brighter than that of Moses coming off of Mt. Sinai! A glow that cascades all down, around and about their bodies, unfurled even to the feet, just as Jesus appears on the horizon - to escort His bride back to His Heavenly Garden home.

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"the valley of Nazareth is on a mountain overlooking the Jezreel valley – and the mountain of the precipice overlooks the valley of Nazaret and the valley of Jezreel" -See more at: http://www.inisrael.com/news/?p=841#sthash.jwS4gbks.dpuf
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http://www.nazarite.net/answer-23.html
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MY THOUGHTS:
for thousands of years, and even in most 3rd world countries today, manhood is considered as reached by the age of 12. Yet, here in the USA we coddle our 12 year old young adults and keep them as children and immature until the age of 21. Thus fully they give us what we want. Most do not disappoint. Even so, any that desire to be independent, is seen as rebellion. Nevertheless, the damage is done.

We have crippled our young adults - though most remain defiant, until they finally leave the nest, and spread their wings to fly. It is not recommended that 12 year olds must leave their home - or that any should leave, even later in life (except for reasons of marriage-Gen.1:23-25). God expects that 12 year olds should begin to take on more responsibilities, make some decisions for themselves, and be given useful employment. With that would be seen as dignity in the young person. In its wake would follow a deeper respect for their elders, as they see the requirements of becoming an adult, THAT THERE IS ALSO WITH THAT the weighty responsibilities in decision making (and the consequences thereof).
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http://biblicalperspectives.com/books/wine_in_the_bible/3.html

"He Shall NEVER Taste of Death"

"He shall never taste of death"
JOHN the Revelator knew he was living in "the last days":
"Little children, IT IS THE LAST TIME: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby WE KNOW that it is the LAST TIME" (1 John 2:18).
JOHN DID NOT EXPECT TO DIE - For did not Jesus say:
"Peter seeing him saith to Jesus, Lord, and what shall this man [John] do? Jesus saith unto him [Peter], If I will that he [John] tarry [be alive] till I come, what is that to thee [why is that your business, Peter]? follow thou me" (John 21:21-22).
YET SOMETHING WENT TERRIBLY WRONG - Jesus DID NOT COME in John's day. But 
Jesus put in a "fail-safe" in His words, just in case this indeed was to happen. What is that?

NOTE: "fail-safe" is (in this case) another term for Jesus/God"couching" His words in cryptic language, in order that, if future events do not unfold due to no fault of God's, but due to human failings, then these words can either be taken as meaning something else altogether, or symbolic for a later fulfillment. God did that with the prophecies of The Old Testament (when the Jewish Nation failed to believe); AND Jesus did the same in Matthew 24:3, WHEN: "THE DISCIPLES came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, WHEN shall these things be? and what shall be THE SIGN OF THY COMING, and of the END of the WORLD?"   

JESUS TOLD HIS DISCIPLES ABOUT THE END OF THE WORLD, without telling them WHEN the end would be. They remained under the impression that the END would be in their time. Jesus had no idea WHEN the END would be, because He said so in verse 36: "But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but MY FATHER ONLY."
YET, apparently Jesus, at least thought to Himself, that John will "tarry [be alive] till I come.." - yet, He dared not make TOO POSITIVE a statement, so Jesus told Peter, "...what is that to thee?"

SO WHEN JOHN DIED, there were those disciples that were left to explain what Jesus said to Peter; AND at that time, Christians actually thought they had misinterpreted Jesus' words. TODAY, most think Jesus in no way shape or form, meant anything like it sounded:

"Then went this saying abroad among the brethren, that that disciple should NOT die: yet Jesus said not unto him, He shall not die; BUT, IF I WILL that HE TARRY [still be alive] till I come, what is that to thee?" (John 21:23 - read all of 21-24).

Did Jesus use excessive technical expressions, or did they fail to believe Him? Jesus did couch that clue with "but if I WILL" - well it's also God's "will" that we believe Him. The Jewish leaders (and people) failed to believe, through much of the Old Testament and down on through Jesus 1st Coming as a man.

NATURALLY, if people are not willing to believe God, then God's "WILL" is to change His 
plans, or delay His coming - or however you want to call it, if you don't want to say that, "God delays His 'Coming' or promises," or what have you, then what else do you call it?

WAS THAT THE CASE - was/is Jesus' 2nd Coming "Delayed"?
God's timing is always perfect. He saw that His people would have trouble with unbelief, so all that was built into His plans. NEVERTHELESS, God also wants to show us how things could have been different. So yes, we are responsible, as well.

How is it we can interpret Jesus' words to His disciples in Matthew 24, which actually described literal events that would happen when John was STILL ALIVE - such as the destruction of Jerusalem and the scattering of the Jewish Nation, some mere 40 years later (Matt.24:15-22)? We interpret most 
of Matthew 24 as double fulfillments, because some of the things Jesus mentioned did happen in John's day, but these same words are also symbolic of OUR LAST DAYS.

ALSO, THERE ARE OTHER CRYPTIC WORDS:
Proof that God has to work around our actions is evident in other places in scripture - such as in Matthew 16:27-28

"For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works. Verily I say unto you, There be SOME STANDING HERE, which shall NOT TASTE of DEATH, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom."  

THE DISCIPLES that were still alive, after "PETER, JAMES, and JOHN" were dead, did they have to go back and re-interpret what Jesus meant by THESE words? Seeing that these 
THREE apostles DID see Jesus in His GLORIFIED BODY in the following Chapter 17:1-2; then our scholars say that is what Jesus MEANT as, "...till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom."

BUT DID JESUS REALLY MEAN THAT? 
AFTER ALL, Jesus said, "For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father WITH HIS ANGELS; and THEN he shall REWARD EVERY MAN according to his works."
Yet, are we FORCED to reinterpret His words, because of OUR FAILURE to believe? EVEN Jesus' three closest friends (Mary, Martha & Lazarus) did NOT believe His words of "LIFE" - yes, REAL LIFE - here and now PRESENT LIFE - with no fear of DEATH, AT ALL!

HERE IS LAID OUT FOR US, JESUS' GREATEST MIRACLE:
It was recorded for us in John 11. Lazarus became sick while Jesus was just a little way off in another town, IN ORDER that Lazarus would NOT BE PREVENTED from DYING, Jesus stayed away "for 
the glory of God" (v.4).

When Jesus arrived, Martha confronted Him, and later, so did Mary. Both were deeply hurt and both said: "if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died" (vs.21, 32). These words seemed rehearsed. That is, Martha and Mary must have oft repeated these words to each other.
Jesus admonished Martha for her unbelief: "Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?" (Vs.23-26).

HERE ARE THOSE WORDS AGAIN:
"I AM the RESURRECTION, and THE life: he that believeth in me, THOUGH he were DEAD, yet shall he LIVE: And whosoever LIVES and BELIEVES in me shall NEVER DIE. Do you BELIEVE THIS?"

Jesus was letting Martha and Mary know that they already have access to LIFE, through BELIEF in HIM, "The RESURRECTION" - and that, it is not necessary that anyone DIE, when a person KNOWS Jesus and THIS TRUTH. BECAUSE, they WHO BELIEVE, and are presently alive, they "shall NEVER DIE."

This is why "Jesus wept." Jesus, when confronted by Mary, and with the very exact same words as Martha, knew that these words had been rehearsed over and over again, while waiting for Jesus to "show up." Instead of joyful belief in the knowledge that we need NOT EVER DIE, they exhibited faithless unbelief, and (in-between all the overdone wailing*) steadily chanted: "if [The Master] hadst been here, [our] brother had not died." (*usually there were paid professional wailers for prominent citizens).

What may appear as words of "faith" (to us) may actually be words of "doubt." Jesus, in an instant recognized gross unbelief present at Lazarus' wake, especially when Mary chanted the exact same sentence to Jesus that Martha had - "if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died." And "When Jesus therefore saw HER weeping, and the Jews ALSO weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled" (v.33).
RAMPANT UNBELIEF, such as this, caused Jesus to have to dig down deep into into soul, in order to overcome the demon spirit of unbelief present - "He groaned in the spirit, and was troubled."
It is a demon spirit present, that causes us not to believe Jesus words: "I AM the RESURRECTION, and THE life.... whosoever LIVES and BELIEVES in me shall NEVER DIE. Do you BELIEVE THIS?"

THIS IS THE SAME SPIRIT THAT WAS PRESENT IN THE LEADERS

When Jesus said in John 8:51 "Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall NEVER see death."

And in verse 52 "Then said the Jews unto him [mocking], Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall NEVER taste of death."

Will the 144,000 need to not only believe these words, but run with these words as MADMEN upon housetops?

"Madmen" you say? Yes, let us compare that statement with:
A) John 10:20 "And many of them said, He [Jesus] hath a devil, and is MAD; why hear ye Him?" OR, in Mark 3:21 "And when His [Jesus'] friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on Him 
[Jesus]: for they said, He is BESIDE Himself."
B) Acts 26:24 "And as he [Paul] thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art BESIDE thyself; much learning doth make thee MAD." (Paul, when the enemy of Christ, was then a "mad" fellow AGAINST believers - v.11).
C) Hosea 9:7 "The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a FOOL, the spiritual man is MAD, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
(also consider Acts 12:15; 2 Kings 9:11)

THEREFORE take warning, in the LAST DAYS we will ALL be "mad." WE WILL EITHER BE "mad" for GOD, or we will be as "mad" as the DEVIL is now! (Joel 2)