The more I came to learn about Paul, and how he hijacked the Jewish religious sect started by Jesus, and the enmity between Paul and Jesus’ brother James, who succeeded him as leader of the early Jewish Jerusalem Church, the more I came to believe he was the Beast of Revelation, the number of whose name is six-hundred, threescore and six (improperly presented as the Arabic 666).
Evidence:
The “Spouter of Lying” was common phrase used in the Dead Sea Scrolls as was the “Teacher of Righteousness”, which are representative of Paul and Jesus brother James, respectively.
The enmity between Paul and James, while smoothed over as much as possible, is evident. James (as was Jesus), was a pious Jew who revered poverty and was strictly observant of Jewish law. Paul, however, had a very laid back attitude toward the law (eating meat sacrificed to idols, circumcision etc.) and chose what to keep from Judaism strictly as a matter of expediency. But the worst of it was how Paul turned Jesus from the messiah to the divine “Son of God”, who was born to a virgin, and died as a human sacrifice in substitution for repentance for our sins, was seen as blasphemy.
One of the worst blasphemies was the ritual, cannibalistic rite of the Last Supper or Eucharist. Such a rite, eating human flesh and drinking human blood, symbolic or otherwise, would have been anathema to Jews, but it (and the resurrection) sold Paul’s version of “Christianity” to a lot of pagan gentiles.
While there is no direct proof, it is very likely that Paul skimmed off money he’d collected to be sent back to the Jerusalem Church, and may have even used it to purchase his Roman citizenship. This would have been a very sore spot and source of outrage against Paul.
Paul is warned by James against the Jews (the ones from Asia-Minor who know him best) for what he’s done. In Acts 21: 20-22 Paul is subsequently dragged out of the temple and is saved by a Roman when he revealed his Roman citizenship. He claims to be a Roman citizen from birth, but then why did he not bring that up when he was beaten 3 times and stoned in Asia-Minor as he reported in 2 Cor 11:25.
Paul, at one point, claims to be a Pharisee. But a Pharisee would never have acted as a violent strong arm man for the Sanhedrin as he did against the early Jewish-Christians before his “conversion”.
The number of the name of the beast from revelation has a couple of meanings. First, the number is six-hundred threescore and six (not the Arabic numerals 666) which is the number of the Beast’s name. This exact number occurs in one other place in the Bible–it is the number of the talents of Gold that came to King Solomon. This could not be coincidence and is almost certainly a slam at Paul’s (ill-gotten) wealth. Also, those Jewish-Christians revered poverty, and were probably early Ebionites (literally “the poor ones”).
A modern day group of Jewish-Christians who call themselves Ebionites, present a very straightforward case that the number of the beast, where numbers equate to letters (Gematria **), translates to Tarsus, where Paul was from. This combined with its connection to wealth, was likely all that was needed to “let him who has wisdom, understand”. It would have been obvious to those first century Jewish-Christians/Ebionites.
ebionite.org/www.htm
**–The site doesn’t explain, but it is found in Wikipedia, that “In gematria, Mem (ref. in Wiki) represents the number 40. Its final form represents 600 but this is rarely used, Tav and Resh (400+200) being used instead.” You’ll understand better what this is about when you go to the linked site.
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