The
Jewish religion is based on the first five books (the Pentateuch)
of the Old Testament which Jews believe was written by Moses himself.
These five books are referred to as “The Law.” The Sadducees, an
elite hereditary class in Jewish society, were the official priests
of the Temple and had a religious duty to teach and interpret The
Law and to combat attempts by other religions to seduce Jews into
worshipping false gods. The Sadducees taught that only the written
Law had divine authority.
The
early Christians were a serious threat to the Sadducees and traditional
Jewish religion because Christians claimed that Jesus was the long
awaited and prophesied Jewish messiah. The Christians taught that
the death and resurrection of Jesus gave every person the promise
of everlasting life through belief in Jesus. They also taught that
Jesus was superior to Moses, that circumcision and dietary laws
were obsolete, and that the entire old covenant was obsolete.
The
Sadducees did not believe in the doctrines of resurrection of the
body, immortality of the soul, nor the existence of spirits and
angels because Moses never mentioned those things in his writings
so any such teaching had to be heretical. The Sadducees probably
composed many hypothetical stories and situations based on Mosaic
Law that ridiculed Christians for believing they would "rise
after death." This parable is a Christian gematria riddle that
secretely disproves the Sadducees by using their own Mosaic Law
against them.
This
gospel story uses the Sadducees as a straw man to pose a hypothetical
situation to Jesus where a woman continues to marry the brothers
of her childless deceased husband in order to raise up seed (a child).
This story is based on the Jewish Law that says “when
brothers live together, and one of them dies without a son, the
widow of the deceased shall not marry anyone outside the family;
but her husband’s brother shall go to her and perform the duty of
a brother-in-law by marrying her” (Dt 25: 5-10). In the
story, a wife marries seven brothers, failing to raise up seed each
time, until finally, she herself dies. The Sadducees then ask Jesus
which brother, after they are raised from the dead, will lay claim
to the wife who had failed to raise up their seed while they were
still living.
The
Greek word “Sperma” (sperma) meaning
“seed” is used four times in this parable which marks it as a key
word. All the mystery religions of antiquity used the word "Seed"
as a metaphor for “New Life.” The name Jesus was intimately connected
with the word “Life” because a circle with a circumference of 888
units, the gematria value of his name, has a diameter of 282 units,
the same gematria value as the Greek word “BIOS” (BioV)
meaning “Life.”
Anyone
reading this story who doesn’t know how gematria can turn a story
on it's head would immediately assume that this story is about a
hypothetical wife who can’t conceive a child. In a sacred geometry
story, every important character and key word is represented as
a circle with a circumference or diameter equal to the gematria
value of it's name or title. Even though this story said that the
wife didn’t raise seed, she was raising seed all along in the form
of circles with each brother that she married. The wife only looks
barren to the Sadducees and to the uninitiated reader. Mark used
the imagery of the Sadducees hypothetical story and the gematria
value of their own words to contradict the Sadducees and hoist them
on their own petard. The parable of the Sadducees questioning Jesus
about being "raised" appears in all three synoptic gospels
(Mark 12:18-27, Matt 22:23-33, Luke 20:27-40).
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