Primary Proof of the Bible: Types (Foreshadowings) of the Antichrist throughout History

ANCIENT GREECE:

“THE EPIC POETS [Homer, Virgil, Dante who greatly exalts the Virgin Mary & Milton who greatly exalts Satan, as well as the tragic & philosopher poets Aeschylus-Sophocles-Euripides, Plato, & Shakespeare], ALL THE GOOD ONES, HAVE THEIR EXCELLENCE, NOT FROM ART, BUT ARE INSPIRED, POSSESSED…THEY ARE SEIZED WITH BACCHIC TRANSPORT…THE DEITY [the demon Bacchus/Dionysus] HAS BEREFT THEM OF THEIR SENSES, AND USES THEM AS MINISTERS…IN ORDER THAT WE LISTENERS MAY KNOW THAT IT IS NOT THEY WHO UTTER THESE PRECIOUS REVELATIONS WHILE THEIR MIND IS NOT WITHIN THEM, BUT THAT IT IS GOD HIMSELF WHO SPEAKS.” (Plato’s Ion, 533e-534d)

"The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue is from the LORD." -Proverbs 16:1: God authored the whole Bible working through humans, and at least oversaw & made sure the demonic ancient classics revealed that they were authored by demons.
-Attis, the Greek god of LIGHT [said to be born of virgin on Dec. 25th, 1200 BC=300x4]
-Homer (a demon's "hostage")’s Iliad and Odyssey: Achilles ("grief of the people"), Odysseus ("long-suffering") , Hector ("the holder," or savior), Chryses the priest of Apollo the Sun god who offers a ransom for his child, Patroclus ("glory of the Father"), Athena, Agamemnon, Ajax, etc.
---Iliad: the story of Jesus' Crucifixion (repeated many times in the epic: Hector, Patroclus, ...) and Jesus' destruction of all who are not allied with Him

tAchilles, the son of a god-dess, pierced to death in heel: [God to Satan:] "Her seed shall bruise thy head & thou shall bruise His heel." (Genesis 3:15: 1st prophecy of Christ)
---Odyssey: the story of the life of Jesus (Odysseus) the wisest of all men, His descent into & return from Hades (Greek word translated in King James Bible as Hell), and His Second Coming which results in His being reunited with His bride (i.e. His people: see Matthew 25's parable of the ten virgins) in the New Jerusalem (Ithaca, the "cheerful" mountainous place) & His harsh punishment of those who were unfaithful to Him (suitors of Penelope & some of Odysseus's servants)

Odysseus kills suitors
-Pandora the Greek: made by God to resemble Eve, the 1st woman & source of ills for humans
-The Nine [3x3] Muses who were originally Three ~ The Holy Trinity are the source of all beautiful “music” and of the works of Homer & more!
-Three Greek gods ruled over all creation: Zeus (over the sky), Poseidon (over the sea), & Hades (over the underworld)
-The Three Graces (goddesses) ~ The Holy Trinity are the source of every blessing
-The Three Oneiroi (gods of “dreams”) ~ The Holy Trinity are the source of dreams, including prophetic ones in the Bible!
-The Three Fates (goddesses) ~ The Holy Trinity determine how people act and when and how they die!!! (Cf. Job 14:5)
-*The Three Gorgons, incl. Medusa ~ The Holy Trinity should arouse fear of the Lord, “the beginning of wisdom”

Medusa: "That ancient serpent, called Satan" (Rev. 12:9)

-Hercules [God & son of God said to be born of a virgin on Dec. 25th saves humans from destruction] (see Virgil’s Aeneid VIII: Hercules vs. Cacus)
  & Theseus [son of God & son of man who saves humans from destruction] "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in time of trouble." (Psalm 46:1)

Satan "appears as an angel of light" [as a Disney character!] to distract even kids from Christ

-Ancient Athens & Athenian Empire during the Age of Pericles [462-429 BC, 33 years] [He was “first among the Athenians for 40 years”]
~Counterfeit of Christ’s final empire of peace centered in New Jerusalem and governed by Jesus
--Pericles (compare with Lincoln): Antichrist "king of the north" [Athens] who locks horns with the "king of the south" [Sparta] (Thucydides's Peloponnesian War, darker side revealed in Plato's Gorgias)
---The Peloponnesian [Civil] War (431-403 BC): type of The Great Tribulation

"Then shall be great tribulation, such as has not happened since the beginning of the world." (Matt. 24:21)

HOMER’S ILIAD AND ODYSSEY

"There continues to be debate between scholars as to whether or not Homer was the true and only writer of his works." http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/aegean/literature/homer.html Of course, because a demon[s] composed his works, as I will now show. That is why Homer's name means "hostage," because he was taken captive by one or more demons.

"The study of Homer was required of all Greek students in antiquity, and his heroes were worshiped in many parts of Greece." http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0858649.html Even in ancient times, it was true that "the whole world lies in the power of the Evil One." (1 John 5:19)

All the major heroes of these two epics are types of AntiChrist, including Achilles-Odysseus-Aeneas, Hector, Chryses, Agamemnon “the most lordly of men,” “godlike Nestor”?, “godlike Paris?” (who is also called Alexander, the same name given to Alexander the Great another type of AntiChrist!), Ajax the "son of Telamon [a man] and seed of Zeus [a god]", Phoinix who calls Achilles his "son" in Book 9 (also the name of a bird which, like Jesus, comes back to life and was held as sacred to the Egyptians [Herodotus's History 2.73]!), Diomedes?, Sarpedon the son of Zeus who was “dearest” to Him and who causes Zeus to weep profusely when Patroclus kills him in Iliad XVI, Patroclus, Priam, Neoptolemos, Alkinoos, Athena, Apollo, and Zeus.  It is extremely important to note that Virgil in the Aeneid makes Aeneas resemble Odysseus & Achilles to the highest degree.  God had Virgil do this, presumably without Virgil knowing so, to show that Achilles, Odysseus, and Aeneas are all types of AntiChrist.  Therefore, consider all three of these heroes together while I try to help you see that all three are types of AntiChrist.

One way God hints that all these people are types of God the Son and God the Father is that He has Homer give many of these men the same epithets, including “godlike,” “great-hearted,” “the lord of men,” “equal of Zeus in counsel (the Greek word metis can also mean “wisdom”)” (Hector in 7.47, Priam in 7.366, Odysseus in 10.37), and “the shepherd of the people” (Agamemnon in 24.654, Hector in 15.262); and by comparing many of them especially to the lion, for Jesus is called “the Lion of Judah” (Revelation 5), as He is also called the “Good Shepherd” (Psalm 23:1, John 10).  Hector is compared to a “lion” on at least five different pages. (Lattimore’s Iliad, pg. 289, 326, 352) Many of these epithets can justly be applied to very few men, especially the one about being the “equal of Zeus [the supreme god] in wisdom”!   

-ACHILLES
Achilles was descended from a mortal and Thetis, an immortal.  Truly was Jesus both the “son of man” and “son of God,” as He claimed!

Odysseus says of him that he is “far the greatest of the Achaians,” and that “no man before has been more blessed than you, nor ever will be.  Before, when you were alive, we Argives honored you as we did the gods, and now in this place you have great authority over the dead.” (Ody. XI.478,483-86) Achilles is called “blameless,” though only Christ is truly without blame. (Odyssey XXIV.17)
Truly is Jesus greater than all humans in power and virtue, and so is He honored as God!

The reason God made Homer have Achilles sit out from battle in Books I-XVII of the Iliad was to show that the Greeks could not defeat their enemies without his help.  Similarly, one cannot succeed at winning any battle, including against sin, unless Jesus wills one’s success. 

“Achilles, we know, was much handsomer than Patroclus or any of the heroes.” (Plato’s Symposium 180a) The following symbols of Jesus are also described as miraculously handsome: King David in 1 Samuel 16 (look at the “David” of Michelangelo, another symbol of Jesus), the Parthenon, Alexander the Great, the Colossus of Rhodes, Caesar Augustus, Notre Dame, and the Statue of Liberty.  I also saw breathtakingly beautiful pictures of other symbols of Jesus such as Julius Caesar and Isaac Newton.  Ironically, Socrates, another symbol of Jesus, is described as the ugliest looking of men, though with the most beautiful of souls!  Apparently, God symbolizes by these facts that Jesus’ body perhaps looked ugly when he came to Earth, but that He the Messiah King will appear “fairer than the sons of men” when He rules in the New Jerusalem as Augustus and Caesar ruled in Rome! (Psalm 45:1-2)

Achilles is said to be “the greatest of all the Danaans for stature” as well as “for beauty.” (Odyssey XI:469, XXIV:17-19) According to an article on giants on Wikipedia.com: “Herodotus in Book 1, Chapter 68, describes how the Spartans uncovered in Tegea the body of Orestes which was seven cubits long -- around 10 feet. In his book The Comparison of Romulus with Theseus Plutarch describes how the Athenians uncovered the body of Theseus, which was of more than ordinary size. The kneecaps of Ajax were exactly the size of a discus for the boy's pentathlon, wrote Pausanias. A boy's discus was about twelve centimeters in diameter, while a normal adult patella is around five centimeters, suggesting Ajax may have been around 14 feet (~4.3 meters) tall.”  And apparently all the buildings which are types of Christ (including the Pyramid of Khufu, the Colossus of Rhodes, Twin Tower #2, the Empire State Building, and the Statue of Liberty) are all gargantuan.  This fact could have numerous meanings: Jesus is gargantuan insofar as He invisibly fills all space since He is omnipresent, for Jesus says that He exists wherever two or more people gather in His name; Jesus might possess a gargantuan body in the New Jerusalem, which would allow for all people to continually behold and hear Him; and Jesus has more power than any mere human. 

Achilles returns into battle to die only after Patroclus dies in order to save his body from destruction and avenge his death.  In Plato’s Symposium, which I will later show was authored by God, Achilles is mentioned along with Alcestis and someone who died for another person out of love.  He “died not only for his friend, but to be with his friend in death.” (Symp. 179e) SO DID JESUS DIE TO SAVE HIS PEOPLE AND TO BE WITH THEM IN THE NEW JERUSALEM AFTER DEATH!

As predicted by Hector with his dying breath, Achilles was thereafter killed by Paris—either by an arrow (to the heel according to Statius), or in an older version by a knife to the back while visiting Polyxena, a princess of Troy. In some versions, the [SUN] god Apollo guided Paris' arrow.  [Truly did Jesus the Son of God use Satan (who possessed Judas, Jesus’ betrayer, according to John 13) to “bruise His heel” (Gen. 3:15, the first prophecy of Jesus in the Bible) by piercing Him on the cross, as the wound to Achilles’ heel pierced and thereby killed Achilles.]

Achilles pierced in heel

Achilles died in Troy (Ody. XXIV.37), as did Hector, Sarpedon, and Patroclus, other types of Christ.  Since Christ was killed in Jerusalem, this fact suggests that Troy was a type of Jerusalem.  This hypothesis is supported by the fact that God made The First Crusade of 1096-99 symbolic of the sack of Troy.  I discuss this resemblance at greater length in my discussion of the Aeneid.

After Achilles died, his body was “anointed” and mourned “for ten and seven days,” and then “burned in the clothing of gods” with “sheep and cattle” slaughtered all around his body. (Ody. XXIV:43,63-68) Truly did Jesus the Lamb of God die after thirty-three and a half years (“ten and seven” times two, rounded off to the nearest whole number!) and have no final resting place for his body, for it rose from the dead!  Other cremated types of Christ include Patroclus, Hector, and Nelson Rockefeller, one of the two men primarily responsible for the construction of the Twin Towers.

Achilles' name can be analyzed as a combination of –?P?@?H? (akhos) "grief" and 8?"a`?H? (Laos) "a people, tribe, nation, etc." In other words, Achilles is an embodiment of the grief of the people. So do people from all over the world mourn Jesus’ death!

Post-Homeric literature explores a homosexual interpretation of the love between Achilles and Patroclus. By the fifth and fourth centuries, the deep — and arguably ambiguous — friendship portrayed in Homer blossomed into an unequivocal love affair in the works of Aeschylus, Plato, and Aeschines, and seems to have inspired the enigmatic verses in Lycophron's third century Alexandra that claim Achilles slew Troilus in a matter of unrequited love. [So do the Jesus and his symbols King David and Socrates have what appear to be (though are not) homosexual relationships with John “the one whom Jesus loved [the most],” Jonathan (1 Samuel), and Alcibiades (Plato’s Symposium) respectively.]

The kings of the Epirus claimed to be descended from Achilles through his son, Neoptolemus. Alexander the Great, son of the Epiran princess Olympias, could therefore also claim this descent, and in many ways strove to be like his great ancestor; he is said to have visited his tomb while passing Troy. [As Jesus was descended from King David and Solomon, so was Alexander the Great descended from Achilles apparently.]

-HECTOR and PRIAM
“No one could have stood up against him, and stopped him, except the gods, when he burst in the gates; and his eyes flashed fire.” (Iliad XII.465-466) Truly can no one stand up against omnipotent Jesus, as was true of other types of Christ including King David, Cyrus the Great, and Alexander the Great; and truly were the eyes of the glorified Jesus are described in Revelation 1:14 “as a flame of fire.” Do you know many other people whose eyes look like they’re on fire?!

“Hector was loved by the gods best of all mortals in Ilion.” (24.66) Achilles calls Hector “the greatest man grown in this place.” (21.279) At Iliad 6.75, Helenus calls Hector and Aeneas the best among the Trojans at war and
plotting. So is Jesus best at war, for He because of His omnipotence defeats all
His foes!  And so is He the best at plotting, for “in Christ are hidden all the
treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” (Colossians 2:3)]

Helen says of Hector: “there was no other in all the wide Troad [i.e. out of thousands of people!] who was kind to me, and my friend; all others shrank when they saw me.” (24.774-75) Jesus is always kind to those whom He saves!  He is always making everything work for the good of such people! (Romans 8:28) When Hector takes up “his dear son” and “tossed him about in his arms, and kissed him” (6.473-74), God symbolizes the joy Jesus takes in his “sons” (John 1), who come to share His nature when they are “born again of water and the [Holy] Spirit.” (John 3) What amazing love!

Achilles’ killing of Hector by “piercing” him to death with a spear in Book 22 of the Iliad is
symbolic of the fact that Jesus used other humans as tools to cause other humans to
pierce Him in AD 33 (as Caesar another type of the Antichrist was killed in 44 BC), for Jesus said
in John 10:18: “No man taketh it [His life] from me, but I lay it down of
myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.”

The book ends with Hector’s burial to show how central Jesus is to the whole book!  The last
line- “Such was the burial of Hector, breaker of horses”- symbolizes how Jesus truly does
conquer and tame the hearts of His people!  The Greek word for “breaker,” ippodamaio,
contains the verb damazo, which means to tame, to conquer, or to put a yoke on.  Jesus too
puts a “yoke” on His people, for He urges His people to put His yoke on them when He says
“my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” (Matt. 11:30) Horses like humans are very
intelligent animals!

Hector reappears to other humans after he died, just as Patroclus does, when he appears to Aeneas in Book 2 of the Aeneid. Truly did Jesus reappear to other humans with whom He was intimate after his human body had died!

Hector is a symbol also of all Christians for whom Jesus pays the ransom.  This is evident
from Book 24 of the Iliad, in which “Priam the godlike” brings a great “ransom” to Achilles
in order to have the dead body of Hector returned to him. (24.555) This scene metaphorically
portrays God the Son (Priam) giving a ransom to God the Father (Achilles) for “dead”
humans (Hector).  Before Christians are “born again” (John 3) with Christ’s nature, we are
“dead” insofar as the “good” nature which God originally gave Adam the first human is dead
in us.  God makes this clear in Genesis 2 when He says to Adam: “On the day on which you
eat of that fruit (the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil), you shall surely die.” 
Because Adam’s body does not die the day he eats of that fruit, God must mean that Adam
died a “spiritual death.”  It is fitting that Hector be a symbol of both Christ and of humans,
for any Christian can say with Paul: “It is not I who live but Christ who lives in me.”  God
makes clear that my interpretation of this scene is correct by having the word “ransom”
mentioned over five times; by having Priam called “the godlike” at least ten times in Book 24
alone; and by having Priam be an image of Achilles as God the Son is an image of God the
Father, by having both Achilles and Priam said to have a “heart of iron” (24.205, 24.521),
and by having Achilles described “like an outright vision of the gods.” (24.630) Priam’s
voluntarily rolling in dung upon hearing the fate of Hector (24.163) is symbolic of the great
agony Jesus felt at our spiritual deaths, and His intense desire to pay the ransom for us.

-CHRYSES
This man is a “priest of Apollo” who comes to Agamemnon, a type of God the Father (as
well as of God the Son), in order to “ransom back his daughter, carrying gifts beyond count.
(Iliad 1.11-13)   God has him mentioned on the very first page of the Iliad! His daughter is named “Chyrseis,” for the same reason that Hector is a symbol both of Christ and of man who is made in His image.  This scene is therefore symbolic of the fact that Christ, a priest of God the Father (Psalm 110, Hebrews), sought to pay the ransom to God the Father so that He could once again possess His creations.  For, Christ is called “The Everlasting Father” (Isaiah 9:6), insofar as He was involved with God the Father and the Holy Spirit in creating man. (Genesis 1:26: “And God said, Let us make man in our image.”) Apollo is here a symbol of God the Father, for Apollo is the god of the Sun, and “the LORD God is a sun and shield.” (Psalm 84) The Sun is especially symbolic of God the Son, but it is also symbolic of God the Father, since God the Father and God the Son share much in common.

-PATROCLUS
Patroclus is a symbol of John the disciple whom Jesus loved most of all, of all Christians for whom Jesus symbolized by Achilles lays down his life (as is Hector and Chryseis) who are in Paul's words the "bondsman" or "slave" of Jesus as Patroclus is the "henchman" of Achilles (Iliad 23.90), and of Jesus Himself.  It is fitting for him to be a symbol of all these people because all Christians can truly say with Paul “It not I who live, but Christ who lives in me.” JESUS LOVES HIS PEOPLE AS MUCH AS ACHILLES LOVED PATROCLUS!!!!!!!!

Patroclus’s name means “glory of the Father,” for he is a type of Antichrist about whom God the Father said: “this is My Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

Achilles, a type of Antichrist and also a type of God the Father insofar as God the Son and God the Father possess the same Divine Nature, mourns for Patroclus “as a father mourns as he burns the bones of his son,” (Iliad 23.223.)  So did God the Father mourn for the death of God the Son, for He “was a constant source of delight to Him.” (Proverbs 8) The extreme grief that God the Father had for the death of God the Son is portrayed also in the Iliad XVI.459-60, when Zeus “wept tears of blood for his beloved son” Sarpedon at the time when Patroclus, a type of the Antichrist, killed Sarpedon, another type of the Antichrist. 

Patroclus returns from the dead and appears to Achilles toward the beginning of Book 23. Truly did Jesus reappear to other humans with whom He was intimate after his human body had died!

Achilles “killed TWELVE noble sons of the great-hearted Trojans with the stroke of bronze.” (Iliad XXIII.175) In Iliad XXIII.22-23, it is said that he “beheads” these “TWELVE glorious children,” and puts them before the pyre on which Patroclus burns.  Because Troy is a type of Jerusalem, as I argue when I discuss Achilles and Aeneas, the Trojans are types of the Jews, among whom were the TWELVE Apostles.  Once Achilles has put these twelve around Patroclus, Achilles calls on the gods of the WIND, which come to the pyre accompanied by FIRE. (Iliad XXIII.207-217) TRULY DID JESUS SEND DOWN FIRE (REPRESENTING GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT) ONLY ABOUT 50 DAYS AFTER HE (SYMBOLIZED BY PATROCLUS) WAS PIERCED BY HIMSELF (SYMBOLIZED BY HECTOR, who pierces Patroclus in Book XVI) AND THEN REAPPEARED AFTER DEATH, ON THE TWELVE “GLORIOUS” AND “NOBLE” JEWISH APOSTLES, AND ACCOMPANIED THAT FIRE BY WIND, AND TRULY DID MOST OF THEM DIE BY THE SWORD AND WERE IN SOME CASES BEHEADED!!!!!!(Acts 2:1-2) (Remember that Jesus said in John 10:18: “No man taketh it [His life] from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.”) Among the beheaded were James the son of Zebedee.(http://agards-bible-timeline.com/q6_apostles_die.html) AND TRULY DID JESUS HAVE NO GRAVE IN WHICH HIS BODY REMAINED AFTER HIS BODY'S DEATH!

-ODYSSEUS
The Odyssey is about the life, trials, death, resurrection, and Second Coming of Jesus!  Jesus’ life in the first century corresponds to Odysseus’ voyages with his companions.  Odysseus’ descent into Hades in Book XI corresponds to Jesus’ descent into Hades after He dies in AD 33.  Odysseus’ consequent stay in Phaiakia in Books VI-XII introduces us to King Alcinous ("Mighty Mind") and Queen Arete ("Virtue"), who are symbols of Christ and his virtuous "bride" (Matt. 22, 25), and whose house is symbolic of the Paradise which all members of the bride of Christ will dwell in.  Books XIII-the end, which describe Odysseus appearing as a beggar among the base suitors, while revealing his glory to his son Telemachus and his servant Eumaios; and then revealing his true identity to all people, torturing the evil suitors and unfaithful servants, and being united with his bride Penelope in peaceful Ithaka, correspond to the facts that Jesus originally appeared lowly among base people in Jerusalem and was therefore scorned and not recognized by them, while Jesus revealed and transfigured Himself before some of His “sons,” but “every eye will see the Son of Man (Him) in His glory coming on the clouds of Heaven” when He comes to punish the wicked (see the parable of the punishment of the unfaithful servants in Matt. 24:45-51) who “ate and drank” “as in the days of Noah” and don’t expect to be destroyed (Matt. 24:37-38) and to wed His “bride” of people who have faith in Him in the peace-filled New Jerusalem. (Matt. 22, 25)

http://atheism.about.com/od/biblegospelofmark/a/homer.htm
Odysseus is plagued with unfaithful and dim-witted companions who display tragic flaws. They stupidly open a magic bag of wind while Odysseus sleeps and release terrible tempests which prevent their return home. These sailors are comparable to the disciples, who disbelieve Jesus, ask foolish questions, and show general ignorance about everything.

God has Plato make Socrates say that Odysseus is the “wisest man.” (Republic III) Homer says "Odyssseus the godlike...is beyond all other men in mind." (Odyssey 1.66) “In Christ are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” (Colossians 2:3) Toward the end of the Myth of Er, on the last page of the Republic, when Socrates discusses what lives the Greek heroes choose for their next life, God has Plato make Socrates say that Odysseus “flung away love of honor, went about for a long time in quest of the life of an ordinary citizen who lived a quiet life free from politics (or “who cultivated little property”), and with difficulty found it lying in some corner disregarded by the others, and upon seeing it said that it would have done the same had it drawn the first lot, and chose it gladly.” (Republic X) Truly was it said about Jesus: “He shall not strive nor cry out, nor shall any one in the streets hear his voice,” for truly did He often tell people whom He healed not to make him publicly known. (Matthew 12:16-19) God especially calls attention to this statement about Odysseus by having him mentioned last of all the Greek heroes.  Furthermore, by juxtaposing Odysseus with many other Greek heroes making stupid choices, God shows how much greater “Odysseus” is than any other hero!!!

There are many other qualities of Odysseus which make Jesus and other symbols of Jesus resemble him more than any other person. Odysseus "beyond others has given sacrifice to the gods" (Odyssey 1.66-67), as Jesus "once and for all" (on the cross, not at every mass as the Catholic Church falsely teaches) offers himself as a "sacrifice" which "takes away sins," unlike all other Jewish high priests whose "sacrifices can never take away sins." (Hebrews 7:27, 10:11) Odysseus is "excellent in every virtue" (Ody. 18.205) and "among the Danaans surpassed in all virtues" (Ody. 4.815), just as Jesus surpasses all mere humans in virtue because Jesus alone "did no sin," (1 Peter 2:22), for "all sinned and fall short of the glory of God." (Romans 3:23) Eumaios, a symbol of one who calls Jesus his "master, though he is absent" (Ody. 14.147), says of Odysseus that "never again now will I find again a lord as kind as he." (Ody. 14. 138-39) Although Odysseus lied, all "types of Christ" sinned during their lives, as King David commits adultery with Bathsheba (2 Samuel 11) and King Solomon sleeps with many women (1 Kings 11). And I don't think that any of Odysseus' lies were not meant for the good of other people, as Odysseus in Book 9 lies to the Cyclops Polyphemus (a type of Goliath who battles David a type of Christ) to save his men from destruction. Despite the fact that Jesus is more perfect than all types of Christ, the similarities between Christ and the types of Christ such as Odysseus and David are so numerous and so uncommon that they should not be discounted. Also, as Odysseus "saved the lives of all the Achaians"by restraining the Greeks in the Trojan Horse from calling out and thereby prematurely revealing that they are hiding within the horse (Odyssey 4.284-289), so does Jesus alone (Acts 4:12) save people from eternal destruction by restraining them from what would cause their destruction, for He supplies His people with the Holy Spirit so that they can have faith, love, peace, self-control, etc. (Galatians 5:22) Both Odysseus and Jesus are carpenters. (Mark 6:3)

As Odysseus saves his fellow Greeks from the giant Polyphemus by striking him in the forehead in Book 9, so does David a type of Christ save his fellow Jews from the giant Goliath (a type of the Anti-Christ) by striking him in the forehead!

 Odysseus attacks Polyphemus

In the following passage, The Trinity portrays The Last Supper followed by the agony in the Garden of Gethsemane, where all the companions of Jesus fall asleep while Jesus is praying to God the Father, and feels very agonized about what the suffering He would have to endure soon. (Matthew 26:17-46) Circe, a goddess, was made by the Trinity as a symbol of God the Father; as was Teiresias, for he is so different from any other soul insofar as he alone has intelligence among the dead and Odysseus must offer his finest sheep to him, as Christ offers himself as the “Lamb of God” (John 1:29) as a “propitiation” to God the Father to pay for the sins of whoever has faith in Him. (Romans 3:25) Teiresias is portrayed as a symbol of God in Sophocles’s Antigone as well.  Circe’s telling Odysseus that he has to go to Hades the house of the dead is analogous to God the Father telling Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane that He has to die, for Jesus descended into Hades: “But since He [Jesus] ascended, what is it but that also he first descended into the lower parts of the Earth?  He that ascended is the same who also ascended above the heavens, that He might fulfill all things.” (Ephesians 4:9-10) “Hades” (which word actually appears often in the Bible, although it is translated by the King James Version as “Hell”) was depicted both in the Bible and in Ancient Greek literature to be in “the lower parts of the Earth.”  For instance, the prophet Samuel’s “ghost” is said to “come up from the Earth.” (1 Samuel 28:13)

Ody. 10. 426-525:
"Thus did they [Odysseus’ companions] speak and I assented. Thereon through the livelong day to the going down of the sun we feasted our fill on meat and wine, but when the sun went down and it came on dark the men laid themselves down to sleep in the covered cloisters. I, however, after I had got into bed with Circe, besought her by her knees, and the goddess listened to what I had got to say. 'Circe,' said I, 'please to keep the promise you made me about furthering me on my homeward voyage. I want to get back and so do my men, they are always pestering me with their complaints as soon as ever your back is turned.'
"And the goddess answered, 'Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, you shall none of you stay here any longer if you do not want to, but there is another journey which you have got to take before you can sail homewards. You must go to the house of Hades and of dread Proserpine to consult the ghost of the blind Theban prophet TEIRESIAS whose reason is still unshaken. To him alone has Proserpine left his understanding even in death, but the other ghosts flit about aimlessly.'

"I was dismayed when I heard this. I sat up in bed and wept, and would gladly have lived no longer to see the light of the sun, but presently when I was tired of weeping and tossing myself about, I said, 'And who shall guide me upon this voyage- for the house of Hades is a port that no ship can reach.'...More particularly you must promise that Teiresias shall have a black sheep all to himself, the finest in all your flocks.” (TRULY DID JESUS THE LAMB OF GOD DIED AT AGE 33 IN AD 33, as this last sentence appears at line 5-2-5!  Similarly, violent deaths are described on page 333 of Richmond Lattimore’s translation, and Telemachus speculates on page 33 that Odysseus died!)

The following passage from Book 16 of the Odyssey beginning around line 170 was made by the Trinity to resemble how Christ was transfigured to look like God before his disciples, whom He as God gave birth to, and is therefore fittingly considered the “father” of Christians along with God the Father.  In fact, Christ is called the “Everlasting Father” (Isaiah9:6).  Likewise, Isaac, another type of Christ, is made to be the “father” of Jacob and Esau to show that Jesus chooses to bless some people (in this case, Jacob) and not bless others (in this case, Esau), though not because of any merit of their own. (For Jacob was base: he envied his brother and stole his birthright!) Like Jesus before his disciples, Odysseus is transfigured to look like God before his son Telemachus.  Although Odysseus unlike Jesus denies that he is a god, he clearly appears like one.  Remember that the Trinity has concealed the resemblances between Jesus and characters of the great works of literature.

“Jesus took with him Peter and James and John his brother, and brings them up into a high mountain apart.  And he was transfigured [or “transformed”] before them, and his face shone as the sun, and his garments became white as the light.” (Matthew 17:1-2)

“Minerva [Athena, the goddess of Wisdom] watched him well off the station, and then came up to it in the form of a woman- fair, stately, and wise. She stood against the side of the entry, and revealed herself to Ulysses, but Telemachus could not see her, and knew not that she was there, for the gods do not let themselves be seen by everybody. Ulysses saw her, and so did the dogs, for they did not bark, but went scared and whining off to the other side of the yards. She nodded her head and motioned to Ulysses with her eyebrows; whereon he left the hut and stood before her outside the main wall of the yards. Then she said to him:
"Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, it is now time for you to tell your son: do not keep him in the dark any longer, but lay your plans for the destruction of the suitors, and then make for the town. I will not be long in joining you, for I too am eager for the fray."

As she spoke she touched him with her golden wand. First she threw a fair clean shirt and cloak about his shoulders; then she made him younger and of more imposing presence; she gave him back his colour, filled out his cheeks, and let his beard become dark again. Then she went away and Ulysses came back inside the hut. His son was astounded when he saw him, and turned his eyes away for fear he might be looking upon a god.

"Stranger," said he, "how suddenly you have changed from what you were a moment or two ago. You are dressed differently and your colour is not the same. Are you some one or other of the gods that live in heaven? If so, be propitious to me till I can make you due sacrifice and offerings of wrought gold. Have mercy upon me."

And long-suffering great Ulysses said, "I am no god, why should you take me for one? I am your father, on whose account you grieve and suffer so much at the hands of lawless men."
As he spoke he kissed his son, and a tear fell from his cheek on to the ground, for he had restrained all tears till now. but Telemachus could not yet believe that it was his father, and said:

"You are not my father, but some god is flattering me with vain hopes that I may grieve the more hereafter; no mortal man could of himself contrive to do as you have been doing, and make yourself old and young at a moment's notice, unless a god were with him. A second ago you were old and all in rags, and now you are like some god come down from heaven."

The Odyssey is about the life, trials, death, resurrection, and Second Coming of Jesus!  In the middle of the Odyssey, in Book XI of twenty-four books, Odysseus descends into Hades and then reappears on Earth as a human, as if he is resurrected!  Jesus does the same thing in the middle of history, at the division between BC and AD!  Similarly, Aeneas’ descent into Hades takes place in the middle of the Virgil’s Aeneid, in Book VI of twelve books.  In both the Odyssey and the Aeneid, there is a major shift in the plot after the descent into Hades. 
After Odysseus is “resurrected,” Books XIII to the end concern his return to Ithaka.  Odysseus calls it “sunny Ithaka,” says it has one “mountain there that stands tall, leaf-trembling Neritos,” and says “I cannot think of any place sweeter on earth to look at.” (IX: 21-28) After Jesus is resurrected, He eventually returns to found the New Jerusalem, which will indeed be “sunny” because it will house the Son of God Himself and will have “no night” (Rev. 21:25), because it will have Mount Zion (Psalm 15:1, 48:2), and because one day there is “better than a thousand anywhere else” (Psalm 84:10)! 

“But since He [Jesus] ascended, what is it but that also he first descended into the lower parts of the Earth?  He that ascended is the same who also ascended above the heavens, that He might fulfill all things.” (Ephesians 4:9-10)

“Indeed Christ once for sins suffered, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God; having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive by the Spirit, He thus went and then preached to the spirits in prison, who had disobeyed, when once the longsuffering of God was waiting in the days of Noah.” (1 Peter 3:18-20)  
When Odysseus come to Ithaka, he destroys the suitors who had been dwelling together with his wife Penelope and causing her anguish.  When Jesus comes again, He will destroy those who had been dwelling together with His “bride” and causing her anguish, as He says in the parables of the weeds and of the fishing net (Matthew 13).  THE CUTTING OFF OF MELAMPIUS’S EARS AND NOSE IN BOOK XXII OF THE ODYSSEY IS SYMBOLIC OF THE TREMENDOUS PAIN THAT CHRIST WILL INFLICT ON THOSE WHO DISOBEY HIM.  The Odyssey ends with the Goddess of Wisdom establishing peace in Odysseus’ realm.  Similarly, the God of Wisdom will in the end establish peace in His realm!
After Aeneas is resurrected, Books VII-XII of the Aeneid concern Aeneas arriving in Rome and destroying many people, and result in peace being established in Rome and wherever Rome governs during the 200-year Pax Romana.  During these books, Virgil models the Aeneid after Homer’s Iliad and Aeneas after the Iliad’s Achilles, while during Books I-VI, Virgil models it after Homer’s Odyssey and Aeneas after the Odyssey’s Odysseus. 
In the second halves of the Odyssey and the Aeneid and in the final chapter of Jesus’ story, Odysseus, Aeneas, and Jesus return to the place from which their ancestors came, for Aeneas’ ancestor Dardanus had his home in Italy and Jesus’ Father has His home in the New Jerusalem.

Parable of Jesus' return, parodied hundreds of years before the publication of the Gospel of Matthew by the demon-possessed Homer in the Odyssey when he depicted Odysseus returning to destroy his evil servants & the suitors of his bride Penelope in Book 22:

Odysseus kills suitors

42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. 43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. 44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? 46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. 47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods. 48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; 49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; 50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, 51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

THE NINE MUSES (originally THREE)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muses
In Greek mythology, the Muses (Ancient Greek "aÊ? :@??Fs"a4?, hai moéusai [1]: perhaps from the Proto-Indo-European root *men- "think"[2]) are a sisterhood of goddesses or spirits, their number set at nine by Classical times, who embody the arts and inspire the creation process with their graces

The Olympian system set Apollo as their leader. [How fitting, for Jesus the real SUN God created them and governs how they appear!]

mousike, whence "music", was "the art of the Muses". In the archaic period, before the wide-spread availability of books, this included nearly all of learning: the first Greek book on astronomy, by Thales, was set in dactylic hexameter, as were many works of pre-Socratic philosophy; both Plato and the Pythagoreans explicitly included philosophy as a sub-species of mousike[6] Herodotus, whose
primary medium of delivery was public recitation, named each one of the nine books of his Histories after a different Muse, invoked at the outset.

The muses are typically invoked at or near the beginning of an epic poem or classical Greek hymn.  They have served as aids to an author of prose, too, sometimes represented as the true speaker, for whom an author is only a mouthpiece

Homer, in Book I of The Odyssey:

"Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns
driven time and again off course, once he had plundered
the hallowed heights of Troy." (Robert Fagles translation, 1996)
Virgil, in Book I of the Aeneid:
O Muse! the causes and the crimes relate;
What goddess was provok'd, and whence her hate;
For what offense the Queen of Heav'n began
To persecute so brave, so just a man; [...]
(John Dryden translation, 1697)

Dante Alighieri, in Canto II of

The Inferno:
O Muses, O high genius, aid me now!
O memory that engraved the things I saw,
Here shall your worth be manifest to all! (Anthony Esolen translation, 2002)
John Milton, opening of Book 1 of Paradise Lost:
Of Man’s first disobedience, and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste
Brought death into the World, and all our woe,
With loss of Eden, till one greater Man
Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat,
Sing, Heavenly Muse, [...]
William Shakespeare, Act 1, Prologue of Henry V:
Chorus: O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention,
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!

Geoffrey Chaucer, in Book II of Troilus and Criseyde:
O lady myn, that called art Cleo,
Thow be my speed fro this forth, and my Muse,
To ryme wel this book til I haue do;
Me nedeth here noon othere art to vse.
ffor-whi to euery louere I me excuse
That of no sentement I this endite,
But out of Latyn in my tonge it write.

According to Pausanias in the later second century AD,[4] there were three original Muses: Aoid‘e ("song" or "voice"), Melet‘e ("practice" or "occasion"), and Mn‘em‘e ("memory"). Together, these three form the complete picture of the preconditions of poetic art in cult practice. In Delphi three Muses were worshipped as well, but with other names: N‘et‘e, Mes‘e, and Hypat‘e, which are the names of the three chords of the ancient musical instrument, the lyre. Alternatively they were called C‘ephisso, Apollonis, and Borysthenis, whose names characterise them as daughters of Apollo.

THE THREE GRACES
They ordinarily numbered three, from youngest to oldest:

Aglaea ("Beauty"), Euphrosyne ("Mirth"), and Thalia ("Good Cheer"). THE TRINITY ARE HAPPY GODS AND ARE THE SOURCE OF ETERNAL HAPPINESS!
Pausanias interrupts his Description of Greece (book 9.xxxv.1 - 7) to expand upon the various conceptions of the Graces that had developed in different parts of mainland Greece and Ionia:
"The
Boeotians say that Eteocles was the first man to sacrifice to the Graces. Moreover, they are aware that he established three as the number of the Graces...
It was from Eteocles of
Orchomenus that we learned the custom of praying to three Graces. ..Again, at Athens, before the entrance to the
Acropolis, the Graces are three in number

THE THREE ONEIROI (DREAMS)
In Greek mythology, the Oneiroi were the brothers (According to Hesiod) or sons (according to Ovid) of Hypnos, the god of sleep. They were personifications of dreams—black-winged daemons.

The most powerful Oneiros was Morpheus. His brothers Phobetor and Phantasos crafted parts of dreams, while he formed the dream in general. Morpheus shaped human figures, Phobetor animal, while Phantasos shaped inanimate objects.
Morpheus has the ability to take any human's form and appear in dreams.

Morpheus sends images of humans in dreams or visions, and is responsible for shaping dreams, or giving shape to the beings which inhabit dreams. Phobetor made fearsome dreams (etymologically related to "phobia" from the Greek Nf`?$@?H? "fear"). Phantasos produced tricky and unreal dreams (hence "fantasy", "phantasmagoria", etc.).

Morpheus is often referred to as "Morpheus the Greek god of dreams" in superiority to his brothers. [So is God the Father supreme to God the Son and God the Holy Spirit!  Remember that even among the Trimurti Hindu gods, two of them were often considered subordinate to the third one!]

They are described in the Odyssey, Hesiod's Theogony, and Ovid's Metamorphoses, and are briefly mentioned in Vergil's Aeneid when Aeneas is coming back from the Underworld.

Hesiod establishes them in his Theogony as sons of Nyx through parthenogenesis (Hesiod Theogony 212; Sappho Frag 63, Statius Thebaid 10.112) [Truly was Jesus generated by a virgin (parthenos)!]

THE THREE FATES (Greek: “Moirai”, Roman: “Parcae”)
These three appear very prominently on the last few pages of Plato’s Republic in the “Myth” of Er.

Zeus also was subject to their power, as the Pythian priestess at Delphi once admitted [Truly does the Trinity rule all beings!]

Clotho ("spinner") spun the thread of life from her distaff onto her spindle. It was Clotho who spun the threads of life with her distaff to bring a being into existence.Lachesis ("allotter" or drawer of lots) measured the thread of life allotted to each person with her measuring rod. Atropos ("inexorable" or "inevitable", literally "unturning",[4] sometimes called Aisa) was the cutter of the thread of life. She chose the manner and timing of each person's death.  [IN THE “MYTH” AT THE END OF PLATO’S REPUBLIC, LACHESIS HAS APPARENTLY DESIGNED THE DIFFERENT LIVES HERSELF, FOR THE LOTS COME FROM HER.]

The Moirae were supposed to appear three nights after a child's birth to determine the course of its life.  [Truly did Jesus rise from the dead after “three nights in the heart of the Earth” (Matt. 12:40)!!!!!!!!]

Despite their forbidding reputation, Moirae could be worshipped as goddesses. Brides in Athens offered them locks of hair and women swore by them. [Truly do all three persons of the Trinity have the nature of God!]

The Fates determine not just how people die, but also how they live.  For instance, Virgil says in the Aeneid I.apx.19-35 that the “Parcae spun” that the Trojans would overthrow the city of Carthage and would found the Roman people.  In Sophocles’s Oedipus, it is fated that Oedipus marry his mother and kill his father, and he cannot escape this fate no matter how hard he tries.  Truly does the Bible speak when it says “O LORD, I know that the way of [or “road traveled by”] man is not in himself, it is not in man that walks to direct his steps.” (Jeremiah 10:23) Jeremiah says this after he speaks of God sending the King of Assyria to conquer the Jews, and thereby implies that the King’s coming is a “step” of the king.  By “steps,” Jeremiah apparently means whatever a person does.  For the same Hebrew word is used for “steps” when holy Job (whom God made as a symbol of Christ) says about God, “Does not he see my ways, and count all my steps?” (Job 31:4), and then immediately goes on throughout Job Ch. 31 to describe many different things he did, such as how he never fornicated, never ignored his servants complaints against him, never denied his food to widows and orphans, clothed the needy, never struck an orphan, never wished an enemy of his to die, and welcomed many traveling people into his home.  God indeed governs your actions, even if you are not Christian and not aware of this fact! 

HERACLES & THESEUS, THE GREATEST HEROES IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY (Along with Achilles, Odysseus, Aeneas)

-HERACLES/HERCULES
God has Alcibiades call Socrates “Heracles” when he first sees him in Plato’s Symposium, to show that both are types of the Antichrist!

He was born on Dec. 25th, as Jesus and 5 others gods which God made resemble Him are said to have been born! (See Table of Contents) http://farbensays.blogspot.com/2007/12/happy-december-25th-day.html

"...temple [in Egypt] dedicated to Heracles. If a slave runs away from his master, and taking sanctuary at this shrine gives himself up to the GOD, and receives certain sacred marks upon his person, whoever his master may be, he cannot lay hand on him." (Herodotus's History 2.113) So did a Jewish person in Egypt avoid destruction by having the blood of the Passover Lamb (a type of Christ) upon his doorpost. (Exodus 12) "There is no other name under heaven by which men can be saved [other than the name of Jesus Christ.]" (Acts 4:12)

Heracles was at times considered "one of the TWELVE gods" (Herodotus's History 2.43), as Jesus was among his eleven faithful disciples (not including the twelfth named Judas) who will rule like gods. (Matthew 19)

According to one "silly fable" told by many Ancient Greeks, in Egypt, the inhabitants were "intending to offer him a SACRIFICE TO ZEUS. For a while he SUBMITTED QUIETLY; but when they led him up to the altar, and began the ceremonies, he put forth his strength and SLEW THEM ALL...many thousands." (Herodotus's History 2.45) Perhaps God made this fable to show that Jesus too was sacrificed to God the Father, submitted quietly, but slew many thousands of Jews in the city of Jerusalem in AD 70 as punishment. (Amos 3:6: "Shall there be evil in the city, and the LORD hath not done it?") Herodotus is perhaps wrong to characterize the fable as "silly," based on the fact that it is hard to believe that one man can slay thousands, for remember that King David, a type of Christ, "has slain his tens of thousands." (1 Samuel 17)

The following paragraphs about Hercules are quoted from http://www.jesusisbuddha.com/larsa.html.

The cult of Hercules was flourishing as early as in the sixth century B.C. From the very beginning, Hercules was looked upon as the son of god and the redeemer of mankind. As time went by, the tales told of his life were expanded and even more idealised by the Stoics, and others. At the beginning of the Christian era, the faith of Hercules was spread in large parts of the Mediterranean area, Greece, Syria, and Rome.

A young virgin, Alcmene, is married to an earthly man, Amphitryon. He does not touch his wife, however, until the great god Zeus has impregnated her, so that she can give birth to a son, half-man, half-god, while still remaining a virgin. This son is Hercules. He is born, not in Amphitryon's town Mycenae, but in Thebae, while his earthly parents are travelling. Nevertheless, he will be called Hercules of Mycenae, just as Jesus was called Jesus of Nazareth, though he was not born there. The two consonants of Thebae, th-b, are the same as the first two consonants in Bethlehem, b-th.

The divine consort of Zeus, Hera, learns about the birth of a son to her philandering husband, is enraged with jealousy, and attempts to kill Hercules. In order to avoid persecution, Alcmene hides her infant son in a remote place, to fetch him later to his home.

Before Hercules begins his public activity, he dwells a long time alone. During this time he is being tried with temptations, which he overcomes, however. The god Hermes takes him up on a high mountain where he shows him the realms of kings and tyrants.

Hercules must fulfill a mission his father has given him, a mission of suffering, and he proves eventually to be an obedient son. The mission is confirmed by way of prophecy, in the case of Hercules a prophecy by the oracle, in the case of Jesus a prophecy from the book of Isaiah (Luke 4:16ff.). Hercules is called the Saviour.

Hercules is able to walk on water, but his true feat is to overcome death, a death leading to life eternal. His wife Deianeira causes his death by accident, is overcome by horror and remorse, and hangs herself. The dead body of Hercules is burnt on the mountain Oeta.When Hercules is dying, both his mother and his most beloved disciple, Hylas, are present. Compare John 19:25f. Before dying, Hercules calls to his heavenly father: "I pray unto thee, take my spirit up to the stars… Behold, my father is calling me and is opening the heavens. I am coming, father." As he gives up his spirit, he says, "It is consummated". His death is accompanied by an earthquake and an eclipse of the sun. After his death, Hercules is resurrected and cries, "Do not sorrow, mother… after this I go up into heaven", which he does later. Even the Gospel story that the most beloved disciple took care of the saviour's mother (John 19:26f) is found in the Hercules legend.

Jesus revisionists say that materials borrowed from the Hercules cult are found especially in the Gospel of John. The idea of the Logos ("the Word"), so important in John's christology, is borrowed from the Stoics and existed in the Hercules cult. When John writes (3:17): "For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved", this should be seen in the light of what Cornutus wrote in the first century: "For the Logos is not there to harm or to punish, but to save."

   he was renowned as having "made the world safe for mankind" by destroying many dangerous monsters.

(Book VIII. 185-305) As Hercules is celebrated by these men year after year for causing men to be “saved from barbaric dangers,” so is Jesus ever-celebrated for saving His people from Satan and from their sins!  Cacus sounds like the Greek word Kakos, which means “Evil”!  Satan is the Evil One!  Cacus has a “bestial form” just like Satan!  Hercules and Jesus both have “well-fed cattle,” for Jesus takes care of His people!  As Hercules violently attacks Cacus with extreme anger to rescue the “ONE heifer” that was captured by Cacus, SO IS JESUS EXTREMELY ZEALOUS TO RESCUE EVEN “ONE” LOST SHEEP:

“What man of you having a hundred SHEEP, and having lost ONE of them, leaves not the ninety-nine in the wilderness and goes ater that which has been LOST, until he find it?  And having found it, he lays it on his shoulders rejoicing, and having come to the house he calls together friends and neighbors, and having come to the house he calls together friends and neighbors, saying to them: ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost!’  I say to you, that thus joy shall be in Heaven over ONE sinner repenting, more than over the ninety-nine righteous ones, who have no need of repenting.” (Luke 15:4-7)

And Jesus says, “The Son of Man [Jesus] came to seek and SAVE THE LOST.” (Luke 19:10)

This whole scene is a symbol of how angry Jesus is at Satan for capturing the LOST people!  OH, HIS LOVE IS AMAZING!!!!  As Hercules destroys Cacus, Jesus will destroy Satan!

Hercules & Cacus (www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Arts/scultpurePlastic/sculpture/bigphotos/B/hercules.jpg)

-THESEUS (notice how similar his name is to JESUS!)

(from Wikipedia:)

-Like Hercules & Jesus, Theseus has a mortal (Aegeus) & immortal (Poseidon) father. "

-As Heracles was the Dorian hero, Theseus was the Ionian founding hero, considered by Athenians as their own great reformer. His name comes from the same root as θεσμ?ς ("thesmos"), Greek for institution. He was responsible for the synoikismos ("dwelling together")—the political unification of Attica under Athens, represented in his journey of labours"

-As Hercules did during his "Twelve Labors," Theseus SAVED humans from destructive persons such as Siris, who "would capture travellers, tie them between two pine trees which were bent down to the ground, and then let the trees go, tearing his victims apart." Truly does Jesus the Son of God SAVE people from Satan.

-Like Achilles, Ajax, & other symbols of Jesus, his body was gigantic (see section on Achilles), symbolic of Jesus' preeminence & perhaps his size in the New Jerusalem.

-He has a son Hippolytus who was made by God to symbolize Jesus (see section on Euripides's Hippolytus below). Thus, Theseus, like many other symbols including the Sun, Achilles & Socrates, is a symbol of God the Father as well as God the Son who shares the same Divine Nature as the Father. Truly was Jesus the Son of God the Father.

-Like Hercules, Odysseus, Aeneas, & Jesus, was said to have returned from Hades, the world of the dead, alive! Jesus truly rose from the dead!

-Lycomedes of the island of Skyros threw Theseus off a cliff. Truly did the Son of God die a violent death on the cross.

-Oedipus says of him: "In you alone among mankind piety and fairness and the absence of lying speech!" "Could he bring here Theseus, in all ways the best of men?" (Sophocles's Oedipus at Colonus 1125, 1457-58) Only Jesus was "blameless" (Hebrews 9) & He is the best of men.

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ANCIENT ATHENS & ATHENIAN EMPIRE DURING THE AGE OF PERICLES (462-429 BC: 33 YEARS TOTAL): COUNTERFEIT OF CHRIST'S EMPIRE CENTERED AT NEW JERUSALEM DURING THE FUTURE AGE OF JESUS

There are many resemblances between Athens and the New Jerusalem, for those in the New Jerusalem will be constantly presented with the wisdom of God as those in 5th and 4th century Athens were presented with the wisdom of Aeschylus-Sophocles-Euripides and Socrates-Plato-Aristotle.  And the Athenians were ruled by Pericles, whom Thucydides calls “the first citizen of Athens,” just as the New Jerusalem will be ruled by Jesus. (There are many other things that Pericles & Jesus have in common)  Consider also the following similarities between Athens and the New Jerusalem:10

-“At its height in the 440s B.C., the Athenian Empire was composed of 172 tribute-paying states. Athens now controlled the Aegean.”  So will the New Jerusalem be the seat of a wide-ranging empire, as is true of Ancient Rome too.

-“Most of the monumental works of architecture, built off of the wealth that literally poured into Athens from her imperial possessions, were built at this time: the Acropolis, the rebuilding of the Agora. Flush with wealth and at peace with Persia and Sparta, the Athenians had nothing better to do with this wealth then invest it in a massive cultural flowering of art, poetry, philosophy, and architecture.”  So did John truly say about the New Jerusalem, “The nations of the saved shall walk in its light; and the kings of the Earth shall bring their honor and glory into it…And they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it." (Rev. 21:24-26)

-both Athens and Jerusalem (and Rome) are near the coast of the Mediterranean Sea

Pericles (also spelled Perikles) (c. 495 – 429 BC)

CHECK BACK ON THIS SECTION ON PERICLES IN A FEW DAYS, FOR I DIDN'T INCLUDE THIS INFO UNTIL TODAY AFTER REALIZING THAT LINCOLN LIKE HIM IS A TYPE OF THE ANTICHRIST
-His name in Greek means “surrounded by glory,” to show that Christ is currently in the Heavenly City surrounded by glory, as is seen in Revelation 5!!!
-He was a prominent and influential statesman, orator, and general of Athens during the city's Golden Age—specifically, the time between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars.
-The Greek word for Athens- Athina, the Greek goddess of Wisdom- indicate that this city is the City where Divine Wisdom dwells!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-He was descended, through his mother, from the powerful and historically influential Alcmaeonid family.”  As I will discuss below, St. Thomas Aquinas too is descended from such a family through his mother!  These facts show that Jesus indeed was descended from a line of kings beginning with King David, through His mother! (Luke 3)
-Pericles had such a profound influence on Athenian society that Thucydides, his contemporary historian, acclaimed him as "the first citizen of Athens". Pericles turned the Delian League into an Athenian empire and led his countrymen during the first two years of the Peloponnesian War.  The Son of God too will be exalted over all other citizens of the New Jerusalem, which like Athens and Rome is on the Mediterranean Sea!  God chose great Empires to be founded at Athens and Rome in part to make a stronger connection between them and the city of Jerusalem that dwells on the coast too.
-The period during which he led Athens, roughly from 461 to 429 BC, is sometimes known as the "Age of Pericles" This happened to show that God’s Son truly did live for 33 years in Jerusalem, whose renewed version is symbolized by Athens!
-Since the city had suffered great damage during the Persian Wars, much of Pericles’s work involved rebuilding of the city. Pericles gave the task of rebuilding to many of the poorer citizens of Athens; while he favored helping the poor, he sought to do so by giving them occupations rather than merely granting them charity. Many of the beautiful structures of Athens were built during this time, but most of the work focused on the rebuilding and repairing of temples, including the Acropolis, and on rebuilding the Agora. [i.e. marketplace where people communed]
- At its height in the 440s B.C., the Athenian Empire was composed of 172 tribute-paying states. Athens now controlled the Aegean.  So will the New Jerusalem be the seat of a wide-ranging empire, as is true of Ancient Rome too
-Most of the monumental works of architecture, built off of the wealth that literally poured into Athens from her imperial possessions, were built at this time: the Acropolis, the rebuilding of the Agora. Flush with wealth and at peace with Persia and Sparta, the Athenians had nothing better to do with this wealth then invest it in a massive cultural flowering of art, poetry, philosophy, and architecture.
John truly said about the New Jerusalem, “The nations of the saved shall walk in its light; and the kings of the Earth shall bring their honor and glory into it…And they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it." (Rev. 21:24-26)

-He fostered arts and literature and gave to Athens a splendor which would never return throughout its history.
-Pericles promoted the arts and literature; this was a chief reason Athens holds the reputation of being the educational and cultural centre of the ancient Greek world. He started an ambitious project that built most of the surviving structures on the Acropolis (including the Parthenon). This project beautified the city, exhibited its glory, and gave work to the people.[1]
-Furthermore, Pericles fostered Athenian democracy to such an extent that critics call him a populist.[2][3] “For the first time, men were paid to participate in government organizations and sit on juries.” Truly did John see in Heaven those who were faithful to Christ say that Christ will allow them to reign over the Earth! (Rev. 5:10)
"Our polity does not copy the laws of neighboring states; we are rather a pattern to others than imitators ourselves. It is called a democracy, because not the few but the many govern. If we look to the laws, they afford equal justice to all in their private differences; if to social standing, advancement in public life falls to reputation for capacity, class considerations not being allowed to interfere with merit; nor again does poverty bar the way, if a man is able to serve the state, he is not hindered by the obscurity of his condition." Pericles' Funeral Oration as recorded by Thucydides,
God had Thucydides say this to show that those who have more capacity to do good will have a higher social standing in the New Jerusalem!  God says the same thing in Book IV of the Republic, when He has Plato say that the Heavenly City is perfectly just insofar as people there do only what they are “worthy of”! (Republic 434b)
-Perhaps the most splendid days of the ancient Greek city of Athens took place during the time of Pericles, one of the most influential statesmen in the history of Greece. Unlike previous influential rulers of Athens such as Pisistratus or Polycrates, Pericles did not rule directly over the people as a dictator. Instead, he used his eloquent speaking ability and keen sense of judgment to gain support for his plans and programs in the city of Athens. Pericles was a good example of the application of Ecclesiastes 12:11, which says, “The words of the wise are like goads, their collected sayings like firmly imbedded nails.” Deeply dedicated to his home city, Pericles made use of his words to bring about change and encourage prosperity of Athens.
-His family's nobility and wealth allowed him to fully pursue his inclination toward education. He learned music from the masters of the time (Damon or Pythocleides could have been his teacher)[10][11]and he is considered to have been the first politician to attribute great importance to philosophy.[9] He enjoyed the company of the philosophers Protagoras, Zeno of Elea and Anaxagoras. Anaxagoras in particular became a close friend and influenced him greatly.[10][12] Pericles' manner of thought and rhetorical charisma may have been in part products of Anaxagoras' emphasis on emotional calm in the face of trouble and skepticism about divine phenomena.[4] His proverbial calmness and self-control are also regarded as products of Anaxagoras' influence.[13]
-Plutarch says that Pericles stood first among the Athenians for FORTY years.  Jesus truly did walk in Jerusalem for FORTY days after He was resurrected! (Acts 1:3)
-His able tongue and sharp intellect, however, proved to be his strongest advantages, and his zeal for serving his homeland led him to pursue high office.