Ancient Jews, familiar with astronomical predictions, projected Daniel's 49 weeks to end in the 1st century, which they knew would be the new age of Pisces.
First century Jews, became certain it was their time to rise, and so they resisted Rome. Rome reacted predictably and destroyed their temple.
After the fall of the temple, a writer - Mark - wrote an allegorical story about a Jesus (literally means "YHWH's salvation") to make the point that the Jews themselves were a kind of spiritual Messiah as predicted by the scriptures, and so the prophecy had come true. His story originally ended at the crucifixion.
Paul/Marcion came along and changed the message to appeal to gentiles.
By the mid 2nd century, it was an embarrassment that no-one knew where Jesus was buried, or even where he had been born, so another writer - Matthew - added an astrotheological birth story and a resurrection. Now we had a resurrection, but no real reason for it. Luke added the reason....
2007-12-10
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