Jesus Triumphant (Chronicles of the Nephilim Book 8) Read Free Page A

virgin (Virgo) who would bear the promised seed and pay the price of justice (Libra) to overcome the “wounder of the heel” (Scorpio). This promised one would be a conqueror (Sagittarius the archer), who would be the scapegoat of atonement (Capricorn), and bring living waters for his people (Aquarius the water-bearer). Those people would be blessed though bound (Pisces the fish). Their blessings would be consummated through a ram of sacrifice (Aries) who would become a ruling leader (Taurus the bull), a king with two natures (Gemini the twins). He would hold his people fast in his grip (Cancer the crab), and would ultimately reign as king over the earth (Leo the lion).
    Yahweh’s enemies eventually subverted the original intent of the constellations and twisted the entire system into a form of idolatry that worshipped the stars instead of Yahweh as the determiner of destinies.
    The Babylonian Magi, whose tradition was influenced by the teachings of the exilic prophet Daniel, had followed the final sign in the heavens that pointed to the birth of Messiah. It was written that when the constellation Virgo was on the horizon, clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet, with twelve stars above her head, she would give birth to a divine king. This was because the king planet Jupiter aligned in conjunction with the king star Regulus over her head creating a bright star. The Magi observed that sign in the year 750 AUC, seven hundred and fifty years from the founding of the city of Rome. The star Regulus is in the constellation of Leo the Lion.
    The Magi were taught by their Hebrew prophet that this King of the Jews would be called the Lion of the tribe of Judah. And they were taught he would come from the small town of Bethlehem in Judea. Unfortunately, the second part of the sign was the constellation of Hydra, the red dragon, whose tail was just under Virgo’s feet and entailed a third of the horizon line called the elliptic. This prefigured the Serpent and his fallen ones seeking to devour the Messiah at birth.
    Warned by Gabriel, the Magi never returned to Herod and Jesus’s parents escaped to Egypt until after Herod died. By the time Herod, that son of a serpent, murdered all the young male children of Bethlehem, Jesus was already gone.
    Jesus knew that Herodian mass murder was a mere portent of the battle he had in his future. And this monster before him was the heavenly architect of his earthly opposition. Jesus swayed in his stance. He reached down and with a grunt picked up his staff to hold himself up.
    But when he arose, he now found himself on the peak of a mountain range, the tallest in the region. It was cold and snowy. The wind, no longer hot, but bitterly cold, rushed into his folds and chilled him to the bone. He pulled his cloak tighter and raised his hood.
    Belial stepped up beside him. “It is so much colder without food in your belly. Here, let me help you.” He took off his cloak and draped it around Jesus. “There, there. Are you warmer?”
    Jesus said nothing. But he did not refuse the cloak. He shivered and felt his toes already going numb. Belial stood unfazed by the freezing winds despite his bare skeletal chest.
    “Do you know where you are?” asked Belial.
    “Mount Hermon,” said Jesus.
    “Very good,” he condescended. “Believe it or not, I did not bring you here to freeze your little toesies. But rather to share my change of heart from my mount on high.”
    Mount Hermon was the original cosmic mountain of the gods. The original location of the Watchers’ descent. At the Flood, most of the two hundred rebel gods had been bound into the earth and imprisoned in Tartarus by the archangels to await the Judgment. Seventy of them and their minions escaped the catastrophe and used this original site of their falling to earth as their sacred headquarters of rebellion against Yahweh. They even organized themselves into a pagan imitation of Yahweh’s own divine council of heavenly host,