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Jesus as
the Reincarnation of Joshua
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According to the
books Exodus and Numbers, the Biblical character
named Joshua is mentioned in a few passages as
Moses' assistant. Joshua is the central
character in the Hebrew Bible's
Book of Joshua who became the leader
of the Israelite tribes after the death
of Moses. According to
Bible Chronology, Joshua lived between
1500-1390 BCE, or sometime in the late Bronze
Age. There several identical characteristics
between Joshua and Jesus including: having
the same name Hebrew name "Yehoshua" which
means "Yahweh is salvation," having the
same role as leader of Israel, having the
same mission of peace, having the same number
of appointed men (twelve), and having the
same representations of twelve stones for
the appointed twelve.
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1. Identical Name: Yehoshua, "Yahweh
is Salvation" |
The English name "Joshua"
is a rendering of the Hebrew language "Yehoshua",
meaning "Yahweh is salvation". The vocalization
of the second name component may be read as
Hoshea - the name used in the Torah before Moses
added the divine name (Numbers
13:16). "Jesus" is the English of the Greek
transliteration of "Yehoshua" via Latin. In
the Septuagint, all instances of the word "Yehoshua"
are rendered as "Iesous" which is the closest
Greek pronunciation of the Aramaic "Yeshua"
(Nehemiah
8:17). Thus in Greek Joshua is called "Jesus
son of Nun" to differentiate him from Jesus
Christ.
Note that "Joshua",
"Jeshua", and "Jesus" are really the same name.
That is, the name "Jesus" is a Latinization
of the Aramaic Jeshua or Yeshua, which is in
turn taken from the Hebrew Yehoshua, or Joshua.
Thus, Jesus was thus named after the Old Testament
hero.
JOSHUA:
"Because of you the Lord became angry with me also
and said, "You shall not enter it, either. But your
assistant, Joshua son of Nun, will enter it. Encourage
him, because he will lead Israel to inherit it."
(Deuteronomy 1:37-38)
JESUS:
"'But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are
by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for
out of you will come a ruler who will be
the shepherd
of my people Israel.'" (Matthew 2:6)
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JOSHUA:
"The men of
Israel sampled their provisions but did not inquire
of the Lord. Then Joshua made a treaty of peace
with them to let them live, and the leaders of the
assembly ratified it by oath." (Joshua 9:14-15)
JESUS:
"And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty
God, Everlasting Father,
Prince of Peace."
(Isaiah 9:6)
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a.
Joshua appointed
twelve men from each tribe:
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"So Joshua called
together the
twelve men
he had appointed from the Israelites." (Joshua
4:4)
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b.
Jesus appointed twelve apostles:
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"These are the
twelve
he appointed: Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter);
James son of Zebedee and his brother John (to them
he gave the name Boanerges, which means Sons of
Thunder); Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew,
Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon
the Zealot and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him."
(Mark 3:16-19)
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c.
Jesus twelve apostles will judge the twelve
tribes of Israel:
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"Jesus said to them [twelve
apostles],
"I tell you the truth, at the renewal of all things,
when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne,
you who have followed me will also sit on
twelve thrones,
judging the
twelve tribes
of Israel." (Matthew 19:28)
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d.
Considering how families and
friends tend to reincarnate
together, perhaps the twelve apostles were reincarnations
of the twelve rulers of the tribes of Israel.
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a.
Joshua
choose 12 men from each tribe and represented
each one by a gemstone: |
"The Lord said to Joshua,
"Choose twelve men from among the people,
one from
each tribe, and tell them to
take up twelve stones
from the middle of the Jordan from right where the
priests stood and to carry them over with you and
put them down at the place where you stay tonight."
(Joshua 4:1-3)
Israel's 12 Tribal Leaders:
"In the first row there shall be a ruby, a topaz
and a beryl; in the second row a turquoise, a sapphire
and an emerald; in the third row a jacinth, an agate
and an amethyst; in the fourth row a chrysolite,
an onyx and a jasper. Mount them in gold filigree
settings. There are to be twelve stones, one for
each of the names of the sons of Israel, each engraved
like a seal with the name of one of the twelve tribes."
(Exodus 28:17-21)
1.
Ruby |
2.
Topaz |
3.
Beryl |
4. Turquoise |
5. Sapphire |
6. Emerald |
7. Jacinth |
8. Agate |
9. Amethyst |
10.
Chrysolite |
11. Onyx |
12. Jasper |
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b.
Jesus choose 12 apostles with each apostle represented
by a gemstone in the Book of Revelation:
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"It had a great, high wall
with twelve gates, and with twelve angels at the
gates. On the gates were written the names of the
twelve tribes of Israel. There were three gates
on the east, three on the north, three on the south
and three on the west. The wall of the city had
twelve foundations, and on them were
the names of
the twelve apostles of the Lamb ... "The foundations
of the city walls were decorated with every kind
of precious stone. The first foundation was jasper,
the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth
emerald, the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian,
the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth
topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth,
and the twelfth amethyst." (Revelation 21:12-20)
12. Jasper |
5. Sapphire |
8. Chalcedony (Agate) |
6. Emerald |
11. Sardonyx (Onyx) |
1. Carnelian (Ruby) |
10. Chrysolite |
3. Beryl |
2. Topaz |
4. Chrysoprase (Turquoise) |
7. Jacinth |
9. Amethyst |
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c.
The types of gemstones representing
the 12 tribal leaders of
Israel are the same as the
12 gemstones representing
the 12 apostles but in
different order:
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If the top half of
the matrix of the 12
tribal leaders is
rotated by 180
degrees, and the
bottom half turned
upside down, with
Onyx additionally
swapping places with
Topaz, the lists
become extremely
similar with only
four differences.
See
this Wikipedia
article.
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6. Edgar
Cayce's View of Joshua as a Previous
Incarnation of Jesus |
Note that the
Greek names for "Joshua",
"Jeshua", and "Jesus" are really the same
name. The name "Jesus" is a Latinization
of the Aramaic "Jeshua" or "Yeshua," which is
in turn taken from the Hebrew "Yehoshua,"
or Joshua. Jesus was named after
the Old Testament hero Joshua. Edgar Cayce assigned
the soul-entity of Jesus to the same name for
three separate incarnations: Joshua,
Jeshua, and
Jesus. Cayce elsewhere reports that Jesus was registered
by his Essene school under the name of "Jeshua"
[Cayce Reading 2067-7].
The ides of
Jesus as a reincarnation of Joshua is more
difficult to account for given Joshua's
genocidal tendencies in securing a
nation for the Israelites. In Glenn
Sandurfur's book entitled, "Lives
of the Master: The Rest of the Jesus
Story," (page 110), he makes an
interesting observation that the lives
of Jesus and Joshua followed remarkably
similar paths geographically: including
memorable stops at Jericho/the Jordan,
Hazor/Capernaum, and Aijalon/Emmaus. But
unlike Joshua, Jesus did not fear
entering the city of Jerusalem.
Sandurfur's explanation is that Jesus
met his previous karma by healing people
in those very places where Joshua had
killed.
Cayce
viewed Joshua as a member of a family who produced many spiritual
teachers
[Cayce Reading 1737]; and also as the
scribe named Jeshua, who psychically dictated much
of the material from the books traditionally
attributed to Moses [Cayce Reading
5023-2]. This explains how Moses could have managed
to include such details as the creation
of the universe and his own death. The readings
give little information about
Asaph, the
music director and seer who served under
David and Solomon and who authored
Psalms 50, and Psalms 73 through 83.
Jeshua, the high priest
who helped organize the return from exile
and the rebuilding of Solomon's Temple (as recounted
in the books of
Ezra and
Nehemiah) is claimed by Cayce to have compiled and
translated the books of the Bible [Cayce
Reading 5023-2]. If these characters, as
Cayce describes them, have anything in common,
it is their role as psychic revelators. In line
with his speculations about Jesus' fulfillment
of Joshua's karma. Glenn Sandurfur (Lives
of the Master, p. 129) notes that whereas
Jeshua made a point of rejecting Samaritan
generosity (towards the rebuilding of the
temple). Jesus centered a parable around
it.
318. Mary Baker
Eddy, Science and Health,p. [t.k.]
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