2 Rival Priesthoods = The Origins of Zadok's Jerusalem Priesthood and the Sadducees

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The Origins of Zadok's

Jerusalem Priesthoodand the Sadducees

We have seen that Jesus and Jeremiah were anti-Jerusalem. But why? And what was the origin of theJerusalem priesthood?

To find out, we must consult two of the most obscure

books of the Bible 2nd Samuel and the first part of 1st

Kings. These two are derived from an older text whichscholars call the Court History or Court Narrative of KingDavid, of which there is no particular reason to doubt itshistorical veracity. From this text, we learn that King David,in his old age, had two chief priests. One was named Zadok,and the other was named Abiathar.[1]

Previously, King David had killed a man to take his wife,and from that incident he fathered Solomon. The wife'sname was Bathsheba. Many years later, when they were oldand gray, Bathsheba tried to convince David that their sonSolomon should succeed him as king. The priest Zadokoined Bathsheba and Solomon in this plot. However, the

priest Abiathar supported an elder son of David named

Adonijah, born of a different wife, and Adonijah was therightful king because all Israel looked to him as the heir tothe throne. At this time, David was old and perhaps littlesenile, laying on his deathbed, together with a beautifulyoung girl many years his junior. So he felt obliged toacquiesce to the nagging of his former lover, Bathsheba, whowas by now a scorned old woman. It was under thesecircumstances that Solomon secured the throne. All thesefacts come straight from the Biblical book of Kings.[2]

Upon becoming king, Solomon killed his rival brotherAdonijah. He also exiled the priest Abiathar to a town calledAnathoth, and gave Abiathar's authority to Zadok, thereby

making Zadok the sole high priest. Solomon and Zadokruled from the city of Jerusalem. They built the first templeof Jerusalem, which housed Zadok and his underlings.[3] Inthis manner, the priests of Jerusalem became a nationalinstitution. Before this time, Israel had worshiped at Shiloh,which was the original sacred tent of Abiathar's priestlyorder and indeed of all Israel.[4] Moreover, the Propheteven records that the usurper will hold the scepter until itreturns to Shiloh.[5]

350 years later, the Prophet Jeremiah arrived on the

Ancient lore says the Jerusalem temple(above) was built with the help of demons.The Genesis Creation Story was written by

heretic priests of that temple.

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scene. The Biblical book of Jeremiah introduces him ascoming from "among the priests of Anathoth.[6] This linkshim to the exiled priest Abiathar. Moreover, Abiathar was aShilohite priest, and Jeremiah is the only one of the Prophetsto mention Shiloh.[7] For these reasons, which Friedmanpoints out,[8]we may conclude that Abiathar and Jeremiahwere affiliated with the same religious tradition. This

tradition apparently had been opposed to Zadok and to theJerusalem priesthood from the days of Solomon.

An obscure oracle from the mouth of Jesus Christ ties intothis ancient web of intrigue. Jesus said,

Have you not heard what David did when he washungry and in need, and those with him, how he wentinto the house of God in the days of Abiathar the highpriest?[9]

The Old Testament story Jesus was recollecting tells of howKing David was befriended by a father-son combo of priestsnamed Abiathar and Ahimelech. One was the son and theother the father, although which was which is not certain, forthe Old Testament contradicts itself on this detail.[10] Twoother priests, Zadok and his father Ahitub, were also alive atthis time.[11] However, David did not go to Zadok andAhitub in his youth. Moreover, Jesus Christ never calledthemhigh priest. Instead, Jesus called Abiatharhigh priest,thus relegating Zadok and Ahitub to something below thatoffice. It seems that Jesus regarded Abiathar as thelegitimate high priest, and Zadok as something else.

Abiathar was the priest of Shiloh. Zadok was the priest ofJerusalem.

These facts taken together indicate that there were tworival priesthoods, one of Abiathar and the other of Zadok,and that Jesus and Jeremiah regarded Abiathar as the morelegitimate of the two.

The 1stcentury historian Josephus informs us,

For a long time, the Jews were divided into threeschools of thought the Essenes, the Sadducees, and the

Pharisees.[12]

The second of these, the Sadducees, or Zadokees, werenamed after Saduc, or Zadok, the first high priest of theJerusalem temple. This is the same Zadok who helpedSolomon become the king and who was the first high priest ofthe Jerusalem temple. In Jesus' time, the priesthood of theJerusalem temple was affiliated with the Sadducees, andeffectively worked together with the Sadducees as the same

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Below: Map of Israel andwhere different parts ofthe Bible came from.




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sect.[13]Josephus and the New Testament inform us that the

Sadducees did not believe in angels, nor in the resurrection.They believed in free will. They rejected Jewish oraltradition, conforming only to the scriptures. They wereharsh in their enforcement of the criminal justice, and theyquarreled amongst each other and with the Pharisees. They

were respected among the wealthy, but lacked popularitywith the masses.[14]

Return to this section's landing page: Genesis 1 is a forgery.

The creationist narrative in Genesis 1 is contradicted bymany ancient Christian texts. Instead of an AlmightyCreator God, ancient Christian texts espouse that theuniverse is born from blind arrogance and stupidity. Theangels caused evolution to occur from species to species.There are many gods, (or aliens?), and the Christian God isust one among them. Satan the Devil writes scripture, and

thus the Bible was polluted with Genesis 1. Archaeology andmodern scholarship demonstrate that Genesis is indeedcorrupted. Cavemen walk with Adam and Eve. Esotericprophecies reveal the coming of Christ, and also reveal thedark forces that govern the cosmos. Such are the ancientChristian writings.

Science vindicates the truth of these ideas. Evolution oftenhappens too fast for Darwins theory. Gaps in the fossilrecord indicate that some kind of unnatural force actstogether with natural selection. Astrobiology reveals thatintelligent life probably evolved long before us. The fossilrecord reveals strange clues that aliens abducted species and

transported them across oceans, and that DNA from diverselineages was combined to spawn hybrid species. Evidently,aliens influence evolution, and they are the gods of theworlds religions.

This is not fiction. All these facts are thoroughly documentedin the links above.

[1]2ndSamuel 19:11, 20:25

[2]1stKings 1:1-46

[3]1stKings 2:26, 2:35, 6:1

[4]1stKings 2:27, Judges 18:31

[5]Genesis 49:10

[6]Jeremiah 1:1

[7]Jeremiah 7:12-14, 26:6-9, 41:5

[8]Friedman, Richard Elliot. Who Wrote the Bible? 1997, HarperCollins Publishers, New York, NY, p

125-126

[9]Mark 2:25-26




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[10]1stSamuel 21:1-6, 22:20-23:6, 2ndSamuel 8:17

[11]2ndSamuel 8:17

[12]Josephus. Antiquities of the Jews 18.1.2

[13]Acts 4:1-6, 5:17-28

[14]Josephus. Antiquities of the Jews 18.1.2, 13.10.6, Wars of the Jews 2.8.12; Mark 12:18, Luke

20:27, Matthew 22:23-34, Acts 23:8


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