There was more going on during Jesus’ three and a half years of public life than most of us ever knew.
The Gadarenes & Those 2,000 “Suicidal Pigs”
Christians know the story. Jesus travelled by ship “to the other side”, went ashore and was confronted by two demon possessed men. The territory is describes as the territory of the “Gadarenes”, i.e. people from the Tribe of Gad.
Things “progress”, and Jesus exorcises a “Legion load” of demons out of one of the men. One Gospel account mentions the two men. Another focuses in on the one guy whose demons describe themselves to Jesus as being named “Legion”.
Those demons ask to be allowed to enter a herd of pigs nearby. Jesus gives them “the OK” to ener the pigs. They do so. Then all the pigs, now loaded up with thousands (a “Roman Legion” had several thousand soldiers), go charging down a slope and straight over a cliff into the water below.
All sounds “straightforward” as a story of what happened on the east side (where the Tribe of Gad settled) of The Sea of Galilee.
BUT, there is no cliff like the one described, “over the other side”, (east side?) of The Sea of Galilee. There is NOWHERE over there that matches what is described in the Gospel account. The Gospel stories are true. But this story clearly did not happen where we thought it did. It happened on “Gadarene” territory, on the other side of “something”. That “something” is a body of water. Which “body of water” has Gadarene territory on the “other side” of it??
Cadiz in Spain
The city and province of of Cadiz in Andalusia, southwestern Spain, was once known as Gadir and Ag-Gadir. Skipping around the claims that the city was Phoenecian, the name tells us that the city and the region, were named after the Israelite tribe of Gad.
Jesus and “The Boys” made it through the Strait of Gibraltar and onto one of the islands near Cadiz. Large herds of “prized pigs” are still there.
The New Testament does not say that the “guys” departed from The west side of The Sea of Galilee. But it “kind of” implies just that. It certainly indicates that “JC and the guys” returned, on the boat/ship, to the west side of The Sea of Galilee after the exorcisms in “Gad territory”. That was where Jesus raised Jairus’ daughter from the Dead. Those stories (the 12 year old girl, Peter James & John, the woman losing blood for 12 years, etc) are heavily connected with The 72 Triplets, and with a CUBE.
If we can accept that Jesus was raising the Dead, it is no harder to accept that he could “teleport” a ship across parts of The Mediterranean, or over Galilee’s mountains back to the Sea of Galilee.
This is just what the Gospels are implying, that Jesus could “teleport” a boat or a ship. The Gospel says plainly that Jesus climbed into the boat with the Apostles, and they were “immediately” on shore. Jesus “shifted” the boat, instantly.
That boat was “27.5 stadia” from shore. (The Gospel says 25 OR 30 stadia. There is ONLY ONE number that is 25 or 30. That number is 27.5).
As soon as we start talking “27.5”, we are talking about The Great Pyramid and Ezeliel’s Future Temple. Both of them use the 27.5″ Cubit
Was Jesus a “Shapeshifter”?
The religious leaders who hated Jesus and were plotting to kill Him, believed that Jesus was a master Kabbalist, a great magician, capable of all sorts of miracles. They believed that those miracles included the ability to disappear, and to change physical appearance. In other words, they seriously believed that Jesus was a shapeshifter.
Jesus was well known. He taught “openly in the Temple” day after day in the days leading up to His death. The Temple Guards and High Priest’s servants knew very well what Jesus looked like.
Yet Judas told them:
The one I kiss, that’ will be the one. Grab Him!”
Let’s rephrase that so that it makes sense:
The one I kiss, no matter what He looks like, that will be the One. I will know which one He is, NO MATTER WAHT HE LOOKS LIKE, I will know. You grab HIM, understand??!!
Judas would not have bothered with “all that song & dance” UNLESS Judas knew that Jesus could “shapeshift” and walk straight through a crowd of people hoping to kill Him. He had done just that in His hometown of Nazareth. Judas knew it. He was there. The High Priest’s evil satanic “crew” kn
The picture painted, when we dig deeper into The Gospels is of a different level of magical life than we have imagined.
The archaeological finds show that the fishing boats on the Sea of Galilee were small, too small for anybody to be lying asleep at “the back of the boat”. Jesus and His Apostles had a “magical ship” on the Sea of Galilee. They used it to “travel” long distances. The phenomenon is well known in Judaism. It is called the “shortening of the distance”. It was still happening in Eastern Europe and Russia in almost “modern” times. A Rabbi and a small group of students would enter a horse-drawn carriage at sunset. By daybreak the next morning they would be hundreds of miles away. The horses “walked” all the way.
Gad, Cadiz and The Shema
When we “talk about” Gad, we are naturally drawn to his full brother, Asher. Gad is the source for the name of modern and ancient Cadiz, where those 2,000 pigs ran over the cliff and drowned in the sea.
The value of the two tribal names is 508, made up of 501 for Asher and 7 for Gad.
501 + 7 = 508
There are 508 letters in the middle section of The Shema. That same section has 122 words.
The overall “Letter Count” for The Shema is 1036, or 2072 for the twice daily recitals said by devout Jews, Jesus being one of them. If we factor “in” the opening line, which says that God’s Name is One (EHAD), then the letter counts become 1,000 and 2,000.
2,000 Letters 2,000 Pigs
“Magic” and The Shema in Andalusia, Spain
The mother of Gad & Asher was Zilpah. The value of her name is 122. There are (as mentioned above) 122 words in that “Middle section” of The Shema.
The man whom Jesus delivered from the Legion of Demons wanted to go on the boat with Jesus. Jesus instead, asked/told him to go home to his family and friends and tell them what God had done for him. The Gospel accounts later describe Jesus getting a positive reception in the Decapolis region, i.e. in at least part of what was Gadarene territory. Did the man go to his relatives around Cadiz, and then “move on” to his relatives in the Decapolis? It is pssible. We, in our era, are familiar with many immigrant communities that keep in contact with their cousins where their ancestors migrated from.
Zilpah, Gad & Asher
She was a “Spanish Girl” at Heart?
Deuteronomy 11 Section of The Shema
Jesus’ “Magical Boat Ride” to Cadiz
(with thanks to “Simcha” for some very
clever “Jewish” /Israeli research re
Cadiz and Jesus’ visit there)