Bennoah1@airmail.netGreetings and welcome to Bet Emet Ministries. My name is Craig Lyons and I am at present a "resigned" Pastor of the Christian faith. There are many reasons for this resignation from the Christian Ministry in my life following Seminary and eight years of a very successful ministry and it is to these issues we must turn since you asked either to be added to the teaching ministry of Bet Emet Ministries or are a reader of one of many of our ministry's websites.
So often when surfing the Internet people find one of our Websites and get confused when beginning in the "middle" so to speak their study of the "Jesus Story" as presented by our ministry's many websites. Bet Emet's Websites are intended to be a "Spiritual Pilgrimage" in ones study of "the Christ" and "Jesus"; moving from the inherited and assumed "Historical Jesus Christ" to the "Mystical Jesus Christ" and finally to the "Mythical Jesus Christ". You see there are 3 different Jesus that we encounter down through these last 2000 years of interpretation of Biblical history concerning the depiction of Jesus in the New Testament. In fact we can trace the Revelation of the "Karast/Christ" back to 13,000 years B.C.E. Only two of these depictions of "the Christ" are true; one is false. The study of our ministry's websites will reveal the answer to you concerning which of the above "Jesus" are false and which are not and how to correctly approach and interpret the Jesus of the New Testament.
If one undertakes the study of Bet Emet's Websites, and understand it has been my life's work, then one is prepared to understand what has happened to Christianity down through the centuries and how Divine Truths, once expressed through allegory, metaphor, myth, and simile by the Ancients who first perceived the Revelations of God, has been suppressed, altered, and tragically lost today through the "literalization" of such revelations given to us by the Ancients. Simply said it is we who have lost the "gnosis" to interpret the "Christ" and "Jesus" correctly when reading the New Testament. This is a tragic story to say the least and renders us as "believers" and "followers of the New Testament Jesus" as idolators and we never know it because our Bibles and New Testaments which we inherited from Rome are "forged" in key "theological places" let alone our prior conditioning to approach and interpret everything we read in the New Testament as if a "literal" event and occurrence. If you are diligent to study and learn from what is shared on these multiple sites from our ministry then over time you will come to understand how it is possible to follow the "New Testament Jesus" in one way which ends with idolatry and in another way which ends in holiness and righteousness. The key to all of this rest in the true identity of "the Christ," "the Logos", and "Christ Jesus". We are all familiar with these terms but we will see hopefully there is a big difference between what we have been taught about them today by standard orthodoxy and what these terms meant to the original Christians and Ancients who gave the world these Spiritual Concepts in the first place. Both the Essenes and Rome's has played a key role in the loss of these Divine truths and the substitution of falsehoods as you will come to see in the study of our websites. "Surely that is not possible I hear you say" but I only wish it were so. For your study and thought are these websites developed and revised over the years as Bet Emet Ministries' studies has progressed and deepened in our understanding of God and as more parts of the "theological puzzle" of Christianity became apparent to myself and others through dedicated study.
These websites are intended to be "a step by step" process in your pilgrimage of learning. We begin by looking at the surface of the texts and then moving deeper as the websites progress in depth and deeper understanding of "the Christ" as well as the New Testament "Jesus". In so doing we look often at the hidden and esoteric meanings that lie beneath these same texts which we inherited and were told to interpret "literally". In other words we begin our websites with a "literal-historical" interpretation of "the Christ" and "Jesus Christ" and move in later websites to the "Mystical Christ" and finally to the "Mythical Jesus Christ". As alluded previously we begin by looking at the assumed "literal historical Jesus" and approach the texts and explain them "literally" as we have been instructed since growing up most likely since childhood in the Christian faith we inherited. In so doing, using a historical Jewish Jesus as the vehicle to deliver such truths, it is my intent to show you and separate for you a Jewish Messiah and Judaism's truth from a non-Jewish Messiah and untruths given us by antisemitic Rome in their depiction of the New Testament Jesus we inherited in our Roman Bibles. As your studies progress it is my hope that you will come to see the depiction of this "Jesus" in the New Testament in a deeper light; not as a historical-literal person but the "personification of Divine truth" that was entrusted to the Jewish nation for the Gentile world. As the websites progress you will come to see just whom this "Divine Mystical Christ within" really is and how this concept has tragically be changed by Rome and given a "literal-historical" life of its own which is not accurate to historical fact nor archeology and its records provided to us today. It is a real shame that the only Jew to ever came to you and me as a "light to the Gentile world" was this New Testament Jesus dressed up like Constantine and bearing "literalized" sunworship and related religious concepts which simply are not true in their "literal sense" since they bring the sin of idolatry with them and their Christology. Over time you will come to see the Divine Truths behind these "literalized" concepts however when they remain as the allegories they were intended for it is then, and only then, can they express the Divine truths as originally intended and as understood by the ancients who gave them to mankind in the first place. This enlightened understanding comes when you study later websites dealing with the "Mystical Christ" of the Gnostic Christians and Ancient Egypt and their "Karast" (our term for the Christ). Rome changes these allegorical Divine Truths when they "literalized" them and portrayed them in the form of a "historical Jesus Christ" to the exclusion of the "Christ within" all mankind and when they made them an "assumed historical event". The problem facing us is that Rome never tell us what they did in the Roman book we inherited; the Roman Bible containing the New Testament. We simply grew up believing everything we read as if "literal" and "historical"; never suspecting that behind these stories were the original "Mythical Christ" and "Mythical Christ" as had been understood by the Ancients for thousands of years.
In closing it is my intent as a yet ordained Pastor who desired to serve the Creator and help His children do the same that once this information came to light over the years of my studies I realized that someone has to share and tell others of this deception in order that our worship of the Creator be in "Spirit and in Truth. Bet Emet, Hebrew for "House Of Truth", has done as best it can to present these truths in hopes that your love for and worship of God be likewise; in Spirit and in Truth which I have found is tragically lacking in the "literalized" version of "the Christ" given to us by Rome today.
The order of our study is very important. If you start from the beginning and work your way through these websites as if you are reading the "best of many books" (which you are since our websites are the summary of hundreds of special books researched throughout the years) then you will end your study with few unanswered questions and you will have arrived at the truth you sought and have a very clear picture of whom God is and what He requires of you, the non-Jewish believer in Christianity today. Sure the trip is hard, long, and time consuming and filled with both tears and joy as you deal with what has happened at the hands of men who served themselves rather than God. But the goal must be kept squarely before you....to come to the Truth once known about God by these Ancients who framed many of the very same religious doctrines that sadly have come down to us altered today and sadly cover the pages of our Bibles and New Testament. You will come to see that there is a very big difference from the Jewish Bible and the corrupted Gentile Christian Bible we inherited from Rome. This is Rome's doing! All of this is dealt with on our websites and you will get to it in time if you are diligent in your study.
Let us end with one passage from the Hebrew Scriptures:
Jer. 14:14 14 Then the LORD said unto me: 'The prophets prophesy lies in My name; I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spoke I unto them; they prophesy unto you a lying vision, and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their own heart.
It is time that we do diligent study in order to overcome these "lies" which we have inherited from Rome and others and repent of such error if it be in our life. It is time we search out and return to the faith of our Fathers who carry the Ancients traditions and truths with them. Today we find these truths best in Judaism which is not surprising since Judaism carries the legacy of Egypt and their higher Spiritual Truths preserved for the world. Few know this today because of lack of study but the beginning study in these areas has been done for you on our many websites. It is time you accept the mantle of such study which in first century Israel was "the highest form of worship".
Lev 20:77 Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy; for I am the LORD your God (the Jewish Tanakh)
Understand then that as you read and study the following website we approach the "Jesus of the New Testament", as viewed in the following website, through the spectacles of an "assumed historical" interpretation. Using the interpretation of Jesus as a historical person, even though the unforged evidence for his historical existence is lacking and points to another interpretation of "the Christ" entirely, is beneficial to us in learning the necessary religious concepts which we deal with in the following website when contrasting the truths of Biblical Judaism with the dishonesty and erroneous religious teachings of Gentile Roman Christianity. This must be kept in mind in everything you read and study in the following site. In the following website I choose to use the vehicle of an "assumed historical Jesus" to present these higher truths to the reader; especially in light of the fact that Israel is the light to the Gentiles and Jesus is the only Jew to ever come to me with the revelation of God (albeit dressed up like Constantine carrying "literalized sunworship with him). Teaching the religious truths of Judaism through the vehicle of a Jewish Rabbi whom we call "Jesus" allows us to see through the eyes of a Jew since, as stated before, the only Jew to come to us with the revelation of God was this Roman version of the "New Testament Jesus". Personally when reading the New Testament through the eyes of a Jew, and knowing the truth about the Mystical and Mythical Christ, I have come to look at the "New Testament Jesus" as the personification of the best of Rabbinical instruction that Israel had to offer. Again he is the only Jew to ever come to me carrying the Revelation of God with him. You can thank Rome for Israel no longer being a "missionary religion". It is tragically sad that the depiction of this New Testament Jesus is "un-Jewish" in many areas of his presentation in the New Testament let alone a gross distortion of the expected Jewish Messiah as promised by the Prophets and Normative Conservative Judaism. We deal with these many issues on many of our websites and in so doing restore the Jewishness necessary to discern truth from fiction as it applies to the non-Jewish believer and seeker of God today.
Let me say again that it is very important that once finding Bet Emet Ministries and our websites that you study the websites in the intended order suggested. Many readers come to our websites randomly in searching the Internet and, possessing different levels of understanding concerning "the Christ" and the "New Testament Jesus", have already seen the fallacy of the historical interpretation of Jesus as depicted in the New Testament. Many come to our ministry's sites and skipping around from site to site without their intended order of study get confused as to the progression of our studies presented in our 14 websites concerning "the Christ" and the "Jesus of the New Testament". In so doing it appears that at one time we present a "historical Jesus" and at other times on later websites reveal the fallacy of such an interpretation of the New Testament Jesus when allegory and myth better explains Jesus and the events in the "Jesus Story". At times Jesus appears to be nothing more than a "myth" and at others times a "Mystical Christ within each child of God". Without the proper knowledge of these concepts given in such an organized progression of study of our sites it will appear confusing or contradicting to the average reader or student. In diligent study of our sites, when taken in order, the reader will both see and progress in his study beyond the "assumed historical Jesus" to a more correct understanding of the "Mystical Christ within" and finally the truths behind the "Mythical Christ Jesus". But this takes time and much reading and we have at Bet Emet tried to simplify this for the interested student. We ask that you be understanding of the ministry's attempt to present the "milk of the Word" to those who have yet not attained such a level of understanding of the "Mystical Christ" (http://firstnewtestament.netfirms.com) let alone the Mythical Christ (http://www.egyptcx.netfirms.com), (http://jesusastrotheology.netfirms.com) and (http://paganizingfaithofyeshua.netfirms.com). It is our hope that in time we all can come to see differences between the assumed "historical Jesus" (a myth taught through the medium of a presumed historical person to serve as an example to be emulated by all mankind), the "Mythical Christ" (personification of the Sun and its path through the Zodiac and the equinoxes and solstices which make for the seasons of the year) and the "Mystical Christ" (expressing a hidden teaching, a secret doctrine, given under strict and exacting conditions to approved candidates by the Masters of Wisdom regarding the descent of the Logos and Soul into matter, ie., mankind). Paul speaks of this:
Col 1:27 27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: (KJV)
I believe it is time we progress with our studies on this website remembering what has been said above.