OMG! I just found this post! My cat has been acting afraid, and crawled under my chair. My Bond book was inspired by pirate radio and Armstrong. This is why I made Starfish and her parents, Jesus Freaks.
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOK! There are two comets in the sky!
The Royal Janitor
Cometh – The Comet Kings
by
John Presco
Victoria and Miriam were looking at the faint Arora Borealis from the knoll that sloped down to their Maze, when a large comet – streaked across the sky! They barely left go a collective gasp – when another green comet came chasing the first one – across the heaven. Starfish jumped up, and let out a shout that echoed down into Eugène!
“They are here!” Yeeeehaw!
“Who’s here?” Victoria asked.
“The – Comet Kings!”
Above is the image of a Parthian King with two stars and what may be the path of comet.
See Comet Nishimura at its closest point to Earth this week. It won’t visit again for 435 years.© Gianluca Masi/Virtual Telescope Project
If you’ve been wanting to get out and see Comet Nishimura for yourself, this week is likely your last chance.
For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, Comet C/2023 P1 Nishimura has just a few days left before it moves closer to the sun and will no longer be visible in the pre-dawn hours.
“Steve” The Crowned Comet King
Posted on April 28, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
For a week I have been trying to find time to post on all the comets, asteroids, and the Aurora borealis that is being seen in Arizona. An hour after my last post I find “Steve” on my phone.
Victoria awoke, and felt for her wife. It was still dark and she could make out her silhouette against the deep blue blanket of dawn coming in the sliding glass door.. She was at the hotel desk on her laptop. Sensing her man was awake,
“He’s here!”
“Who?
“Stephen…The King of Comet King!”
Victoria looked over Starfish’s shoulder at the image of a large tail of a comet, or so she thought. STEVE has a strange energy in the night sky.
“He’s here! This is how killer Saul-Paul recognized member of THE WAY. Once every so many years, an energy comes out of The Milky Way and dwells in certain people who are receptive to cosmic ideas. Saints in India learned to prepare for these events. The Judaic cosmology came from India. My parents took me to the top of Mount Shasta on moonless nights. One night the Aurora Borealis was right on top of us. We felt we could reach out – and touch the purple color, the color of the robes of kings, Suddenly the Milky Way opened like a curtain, and we were staring into the Heart of Creation. We looked at each other, and there was a glowing halo abound our heads – that lasted for days. However, mine kept coming back. Look1 I can control my Halo Spirit! We had to hide our golden light from our enemies. But, when the crowned one is on Earth, we can not. Such is our…..Cosmic Joy!”
Victoria gasped as a gold light appeared around her wives head! She took two steps back. She reached her hand out and felt the tickle of these gold slivers of light.
To be conitnued.
Meaning of Steven: Medieval English variant of STEPHEN, and a Dutch variant of STEFAN. The filmmaker Steven Spielberg (1946-), director of ‘E.T.’ and ‘Indiana Jones’, is a famous bearer of this name.
This week, the dancing, shimmering, luminous aurora borealis descended from the sky, further south from its typical territory, where it could be seen even in parts of the United States from California to Colorado to West Virginia.
The Air Force didn’t immediately respond to questions early Friday about whether any such activity could explain the video, shared by 8 News Now viewer Bill — he asked not to use his last name — who lives in the southeast valley.
NOVEMBER 12, 2020 AT 6:00 AM
The atmospheric light show nicknamed STEVE may be even weirder than skywatchers thought.
STEVE, short for Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement, is a sky glow that appears south of the northern lights (SN: 3/15/18). STEVE’s main feature is a mauve band of light formed by a stream of plasma flowing westward through the atmosphere — a different phenomenon from the one that gives rise to auroras (SN: 4/30/19). But STEVE’s purple arc is often accompanied by a “picket fence” of vertical green stripes. That fence looks similar enough to the shimmering green curtains seen in the aurora borealis that scientists thought at least this part of STEVE could be a type of aurora.
Recently, studies of the picket fence’s color have cast doubt on its origins. Auroras form when electrons from the magnetic bubble, or magnetosphere, surrounding Earth cascade into the atmosphere (SN: 2/7/20). Those electrons make nitrogen in the air glow blue and oxygen glow green. While STEVE’s green picket fence also contains glowing oxygen, a dearth of nitrogen emission hints that the fence is not the same kind of light show as an aurora.
Now, researchers and citizen scientists have identified an even more unusual aspect of STEVE’s picket fence: small green streaks that stick out like feet from the bottom of some of its vertical stripes. The structure of these horizontal streaks cannot be formed by the electron showers responsible for auroras, researchers report in the December AGU Advances.
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“It’s really weird, and nobody really knows what’s going on just yet,” says Joshua Semeter, an engineer at Boston University. But the new observations suggest these horizontal streaks — and perhaps the similarly colored fence — arise from some STEVE-specific process.
Semeter and colleagues examined horizontal streaks below picket fences in high-resolution images of STEVE taken by citizen scientists. The analysis suggested that the streaks in these images were not actually lines extended across the sky, but only appeared that way due to motion blur, as spherical blobs of glowing gas moved through the atmosphere.
These green blobs might arise from turbulence in the torrent of plasma that creates STEVE’s purple band, Semeter says. Positively charged atoms in the plasma may rush through the atmosphere largely unimpeded, forming a smooth purple arc. Meanwhile, electrons in the plasma are far lighter and more liable to get tripped up by Earth’s magnetic field lines — giving those particles a much bumpier ride through the air. As a result, those high-energy electrons may get tangled up in small vortices on the edge of the plasma stream, below the purple streak. There, the particles could excite pockets of oxygen to glow green.
For now, this is just a theory for what might be occurring. Computer simulations of plasma flowing through the atmosphere could test whether the idea is correct.
Whatever is going on with STEVE’s horizontal green features, “there’s some tantalizing evidence” that they’re related to the vertical picket fence, Semeter says. “We found events where these little feet appear before or at the same time as the green column above it.” And some horizontal and vertical streaks looked connected. “It appears that the green emission is actually expanding upward along the magnetic field line,” Semeter says. If so, that could explain why STEVE’s picket fence doesn’t have quite the same color as typical auroras.
While these observations do hint that the fence may arise from STEVE-specific particle interactions, it’s hard to be sure based only on photographs from the ground, says Toshi Nishimura, a space physicist at Boston University who was not involved in the work.
Future satellite observations could confirm whether electrons from the magnetosphere are pouring into the atmosphere in the region of a STEVE picket fence, he says. If satellites don’t see such electron showers, that will bolster the idea that the fence is different from normal auroras.
Rosamond, Pharamond, and The Comet Kings
Posted on February 27, 2020 by Royal Rosamond Press
Posted on January 6, 2014by Royal Rosamond Press
Who are the Magi, and why have they come to behold a infant born under a star? When one sees the Pharisees as being allied to Jesus – they putting him to a favorable test – then one must wonder if Jesus is a Parthian. If you replace the Pharisees with the Magi, who are presenting a Savior, the meaning of the name Jesus, then one sees the Magi were the earliest Christians whom Saul-Paul persecuted, he claiming he had papers to pursue these early followers into Damascus. How did Paul recognize them? Well, they had very large noses, and they may have been Scythians.
Mournful Trail of The Comet Kings
Posted on September 25, 2022 by Royal Rosamond Press
Two small boys clown around in the holes of the 16-ton Willamette
Meteorite, where it sits on display in the Americvan Museum of
Natural History in New York in 1911.
Friday night I considered deleting my post on Gooby McCoon. When I woke up on Saturday morning, I told myself I was going to do it. I read it once more – and still like it! It contains much of my input on the renaming of Lane County. But, I felt something was wrong. I composed and posted my last blog on the Fictional Republicanism. Taking a break I read my newsfeed on my phone in my easy chair – and read this!
Name change proposed for Lane County | News | kezi.com
“Joseph Lane served as Oregon’s first governor. He’s been described as a frontier hero, a general during the Mexican-American War, but he is also known to have supported the institution of slavery during the Civil War. Organizers say the Kalapuya and their ancestors are estimated to have lived in the Willamette Valley since before the last ice age. Organizers in favor of the name change say the Kalapuya were forced to sign treaties to move to reservations, making room for American immigrants.”
I lie in bed this morning and tried to salvage the history of John Fremont and John Wilson – who made war on Native Americans. I will try and make peace with David Lewis, Assoc. Professor of Anthropology at Oregon State University. But, then I heard this from my recovery program…
“Half measures availed us not!”
I took a fearless and moral inventory of myself – and family! The Rosamond family warred with the Cherokees in South Carolina as did Marion Francis. I will tell David about Marion county, and we could work together to erase his name. Then I beheld the photo of the rocket launch that looks like a comet, a name that come from ‘comb’ and ‘long hair’. I realized this was cosmic prophecy and found permission to go all the way – and give the The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde – the State of Oregon!
Two years ago President Putin and President Trump RULED a large part of earth. Both leaders broke the treaty they made with – The People! The Republican Party is DEAD for the simple reason it can not abide by a simple agreement, where elections are held, and, The Winner is announced – and honored! Putin ran a fake and illegal voting referendum – that took land away from the Ukrainians! This evil – was done to all the Native Americans!
Here is the final resting place of Queen Elizabeth in Saint Georges Chapel. She is not far from my Wilson grandfather who I believe were Knight of the Garter. John Wilson established a Puritan Christian Colony and this history allegedly gives permission to the Christian Nationalists to take over the Republican Party – and THIS DEMOCRACY! Whatever….They don’t get Oregon!
Elizabeth was a Grail Queen. King Arthur came to America as a Comet King. Archie Windsor is in line for the Throne of England. His ancestors owned the Oregon Territory. The blood of the Russian Czars is in his Viens. In the next posts I will show you what True Promises and Legacies look like. I believe Jesus was a Comet King.
Let us mourn this day the Dead of the World, and the Russians who have died – and will die – for nothing! Let the Spirit of the World fly over the State of Oregon – that needs a new name!
John Presco ‘The Nazarite’
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Queen Elizabeth II‘s final resting place at the King George VI Memorial Chapel has been marked with a new ledger stone, Buckingham Palace announced on Saturday.
The Territory of Oregon was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from August 14, 1848, until February 14, 1859, when the southwestern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Oregon. Originally claimed by several countries (see Oregon Country), the region was divided between the UK and the US in 1846. When established, the territory encompassed an area that included the current states of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, as well as parts of Wyoming and Montana. The capital of the territory was first Oregon City, then Salem, followed briefly by Corvallis, then back to Salem, which became the state capital upon Oregon’s admission to the Union.
Queen Elizabeth II’s Final Resting Place Marked With New Ledger Stone (people.com)
The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde was formed in 1856 when the federal government forced member tribes to cede their ancestral lands in the valleys of Western Oregon and relocate to a reservation in Oregon’s Coast Range. Member tribes included the Kalapuya, Molalla, Chasta, Umpqua, Rogue River and Clackamas, as well as other smaller bands and tribes. Grand Ronde leaders are committed to building self-sufficiency and turning things around for tribal members and the Oregon communities in which they live. The Grand Ronde own and operate Spirit Mountain Casino, the most successful casino in the Pacific Northwest, and have developed other tribal enterprises in construction and environmental management, real estate investment and inventory logistics services. Its Spirit Mountain Community Fund has given more than $9 million to non-profit organizations since 1997, making it Oregon’s eighth largest charitable foundation.
The Comet Kings prepared THE WAY for John the Baptist – and not Jesus! The Magi came to the Sukkot Booth that Zachariah had built outside Jerusalem. John the Baptist was born in a Sukkot Booth. Jesus was not born in manger, because his birth negates the importance of John’s birth, that was foreseen by the Magi, and celebrated by thousand of Jews – all over the world!
It is time! The Hand of God has been formed. Around my head is a heavenly energy that has protected me since I was reborn on February 11, 1967. I was twenty years old when I died. I was reborn buried under a mount of lies. Today, I arrive at the – Zenith of Truth!
John
I just watched this episode of The Chosen – and it is joke that a million Christians take part in.
John
Jesus Was Born In Sukkot Booth
Posted on December 25, 2016 by Royal Rosamond Press
Last night I had nightmares about how divided the United States is. The prophecy I found two days ago about ‘The Great King’ bids me to give lessons aimed at not uniting us, but gifting us with The Truth, which will set us free from the chains of Hubris ‘The Great Liar’.
Jesus was not born in a manger, but a Sukkot. Most Rabbis could have figured this out, if they bothered, if they looked. At forty-eight years of age, I began my search after reading the Bible for the first time. I found many truths. The man in the video below owns many truths and gives them away for free.
Donald Trump has taken The Truth hostage, and gives us crumbs for political power. He has already made Free Men – beggars! When we are beggars, we work against one another.
Jon ‘The Nazarite’
The Festival of Sukkot begins on Tishri 15, the fifth day after Yom Kippur. It is quite a drastic transition, from one of the most solemn holidays in our year to one of the most joyous. Sukkot is so unreservedly joyful that it is commonly referred to in Jewish prayer and literature as Z’man Simchateinu 
, the Season of our Rejoicing.
All the neighbors were filled with awe, and throughout the hill country of Judea people were talking about all these things. 66 Everyone who heard this wondered about it, asking, “What then is this child going to be?” For the Lord’s hand was with him.
I Am The Resuscitation of John the Baptist
Posted on October 9, 2019 by Royal Rosamond Press
John the Baptist was older than his disciple, Jesus. When John died, he went to his tomb, and John resuscitated into the body of Jesus. This truth has been altered and hidden, but, because I AM John the Baptist, I can see The Truth.
Follow The Lies. Why would Jesus send a disciple to give John a message while he is alive – in jail – where no one had access to him. He is under arrest.
“I have come to see John. Jesus has a message for him!”
“So! Would you like to be under arrest – too?”
When John is beheaded, he is released to a relative. Jesus is John’s relative. They go to John’s tomb and John resuscitates into Jesus – who will later do this with the gardener. We see the transference of the Holy Spirit, not from the womb of Elizabeth, but from the Dove when Jesus is baptized by John – who prepared The Way for Jesus. He made his resuscitation heir. She will do the same on the cross. Who is at the cross? Mary Magdalene! She is the heir. She is going to be The Holy Wife of the Line of the Resuscitate! She will line up more women to receive a resuscitation. This is why Paul was hire to assassinated members of The Way. There were women walking about – with halos!
This is why we see so many paintings of Mary Magdalene looking at a skull. It is her skull! I could have written a book years ago. God bid me to wait for the Terrible Day of Betrayal. John came into my body when I died February 11, 1967. The rise of the Evil Christian-right was begging. These devils too over our Democracy, with Treason in their hearts. Satan-Trump is the embodiment of Saul-Paul who claimed he was a Apostle. He lied ten times a day. He went to foreign nations, to lie! He never stopped hunting down…….
The Women of The Way
Now you are awake!
Repent!
John Presco ‘John the Baptist’
Copyright 2019
Summoning the Nazarite Judges
Posted on September 17, 2014by Royal Rosamond Press
“Let the number of my Nazariteships be as the hairs of my head, or as the dust-particles of the earth, or as the sands of the sea”
Twenty-seven years ago I had a reading at the Berkeley Psychic Institute. The first thing I was told, was
“You died!”
I was also told this;
“People come into your being and take, take, take! You are powerless to stop them. I can’t see why.”
I was told I had two children. This is when I looked at my attempt to save Patrice and her children. Patrice and her family have been coming into my being via my daughter in order to take my Healing Energy – without having to do any work to save themselves. I was their Slave-Redeemer.
It is said King David was with the Philistines, and was their vassal. Did they adopt his Lord and His religion, for a little while – and corrupt it? Did they alter the Message in order that God sere them – as their slave?
When John the Baptist was born he was whisked away to a foreign land. Why? All thru the Diaspora Jews were taking the Vow of the Nazarite before they made a pilgrimage to the Temple. John was preparing their way, cleansing them of sins they picked up in heathen lands. John wanted them to behold THE LORD, not the son of the lord, but THE FATHER.
Satan-Paul confronts twelve disciples of John in Ephesus, who he claims were not baptized in the Nazarite Holy Spirit, and proceeds to do the job. James, the brother of Jesus, bid Paul to take the Vow of the Nazarite to prove he was not spreading a false teaching. Paul failed the test and was arrested and taken to Rome where he was beheaded. Jesus was a Nazarite after John, and was a mortal.
I have seen the coming of ‘The Terrible Day of our Lord’. For weeks our President has been trying to gather a collective force to fight ISIS. The remains of John the Baptist are in the great mosque in Damascus where the Nazarite Church was chased by Satan-Paul. This church had restored the Rule of Judges and summoned God’s Champion. Here is ‘The Rebirth of Samson.
Above we see two photos of me taken by my late sister. She wanted me to be her first male portrait. When she developed them, she was startled to see these strands of energy that surrounded me. These are the Strands of Angel Hair that have protected me, kept me from harm. My sister’s saw this angel standing at the foot of the bed, as did the old crone up the street. This angel came into my life when I was dying of whopping cough. I saw a bright blue light come from the womb of my Aunt June when she kissed me good night. June Rosamond married Vincent Rice. They saw me as their child.
I am a anti-Zionist for the reason the State of Israel was not founded by Divine Redeemers, but by secular terrorists. I subscribe to Reform Judaism that is a Divine Diaspora. In the name of John and Samson, I bid Jews int eh Diaspora to take the Vow of the Nazarite, and in Spirit join forces against ISIS! Women could take the Vow of the Nazarite. There were women Judges and Redeemers, such as Deborah.
In our Presidents call for a coalition, why does not Israel answer this call, and come fight alongside Arabs and Muslim against the enemy of God? Consider the story of Gideon. This Jewish force can come from ‘The United States of America’. I will clarify this possibility in coming posts.
Jon the Nazarite
http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Act&c=19
Rabbinical literature identifies Samson with Bedan;[6] Bedan was a Judge mentioned by Samuel in his farewell address (1 Samuel 12:11) among the Judges that delivered Israel from their enemies.[19] However, the name “Bedan” is not found in the Book of Judges.[19] The name “Samson” is derived from the Hebrew word “shemesh”, which means the sun, so that Samson bore the name of God, who is called “a sun and shield” in Psalms 84:11; and as God protected Israel, so did Samson watch over it in his generation, judging the people even as did God.[6] Samson’s strength was divinely derived (Talmud, Tractate Sotah 10a).[6][20]
Bedan is named as the deliverer of Israelites in 1 Samuel 12:11. He is not mentioned elsewhere as a judge of Israel. Bp. Patrick and others hypothesis the name to be a contraction of ben Dan (“the son of Dan”) by which they suppose Samson is meant, as the Targum reads. The LXX, Syriac, and Arabic, however, refer to the name as Barak, instead of Bedan; and the two latter versions refer to Samson, instead of Samuel. These readings are adopted by Houbigant, and appear to be genuine, for it is not probable that Samuel would enumerate himself.
Academics have interpreted Samson as a demigod (such as Hercules or Enkidu) enfolded into Jewish religious lore, or as an archetypical folklore hero, among others. These views sometimes interpreted him as a solar deity, popularized by “solar hero” theorists and Biblical scholars alike.[30][31][32] The name Delilah may also involve a wordplay with the Hebrew word for night, ‘layla’, which “consumes” the day.[33] Samson bears many similar traits to the Greek Herakles (and the Roman Hercules adaptation), inspired himself partially from the mesopotamian Enkidu tale: Herakles and Samson both battled a Lion bare handed (Lion of Nemea feat), Herakles and Samson both had a favorite primitive blunt weapon (a club for the first, an ass’s jaw for the latter), they were both betrayed by a woman which led them to their ultimate fate (Herakles by Dejanira, while Samson by Delilah). Both heroes, champion of their respective people, die by their own hand: Herakles ends his life on a pyre while Samson makes the Philistine temple collapse upon himself and his enemies.
These views are disputed by traditional and conservative biblical scholars who consider Samson to be a literal historical figure and thus reject any connections to mythological heroes.[34] That Samson was a “solar hero” has been described as “an artificial ingenuity”.[35] Some biblical scholars suggest that Samson’s home tribe of Dan might have been related to the Philistines themselves. “Dan” might be another name for the tribe of Sea Peoples otherwise known as the Denyen, Danuna, or Danaans. If so, then Samson’s origin might be entirely Aegean.[36] These speculations are in stark contrast to the historical depictions expressed in the Bible and are therefore mutually exclusive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson
The secrecy around the powerful medieval Order of the Knights Templar, and the speed with which they disappeared over the space of a few years, has led to Knights Templar legends. These range from rumors about their association with the Holy Grail and the Ark of the Covenant, to questions about their association with the Freemasons, to searches for a lost treasure. Speculation about the Templars has increased because of references to them in bestselling books such as The Da Vinci Code and films such as Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and National Treasure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Templar_legends
Some historians and authors have tried to draw a link from Freemasonry and its many branches to the Templars. This alleged link remains a point of debate. Degrees in the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite such as the Knight of Saint Andrew, the Knight of Rose-Croix, and the 32nd Degree in Consistory make reference to a “Masonic Knights Templar” connection, but this is usually dismissed as being ceremonial and not historical fact.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Templar_Revelation
John the Baptist
Saint John the Baptist, who was beheaded, is said also to be the source of Templar idolatry. As ludicrous as this may at first seem, it is commonly known that several bogus John the Baptist heads were around during this time. Could the Templars have possessed one of these heads? It is possible, as the Templars were said to possess many of the religious relics of the time. As supposed Poor Knights of Christ it is quite possible that the head of St. John the Baptist would be an object of devotion and guidance since his feast was to be celebrated by the command of the Templar Rule of Order.
The Head of Jesus Christ
In his book, “The Head of God,” Dr. Keith Laidler put forth the theory that the Templars were practitioners of a cult of the head, which dated back to ancient times. Laidler’s theory claims that Jesus Christ’s head was severed after His crucifixion and latterly fell into the hands of the Templars who venerated it as part of their cult. This head, Laidler claims is buried in the apprentice Pillar at Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland.
http://blog.templarhistory.com/2010/04/the-bearded-head-of-the-templars/
Following the conquest of Canaan by Joshua until the formation of the first Kingdom of Israel (ca. 1150–1025 BC), the Israelite Tribes formed a loose confederation. No central government existed in this confederation and in times of crisis, the people were led by ad hoc chieftains known as judges.[2]
In the Book of Judges, a cyclical pattern is given to show the need for the various judges: apostasy of the Israelite people, hardship brought on as punishment from God, crying out to the Lord for rescue.[3] The judges were the successive individuals, each from a different tribe of Israel, chosen by God to rescue the people from their enemies and establish justice and the practice of the Torah amongst the Hebrews.
Most judges acted primarily as military leaders in times of war. These leaders were thought of as being sent by God to deliver the people from a threat. After the threat had passed, the judge was generally expected to give up their position as military leaders. They were most likely tribal or local leaders, contrary to the Deuteronomistic historians portrayal of them as leaders of all of Israel,[7] however their authority was recognized by local groups or tribes beyond their own.[8] In accordance with the needs of the time, their functions were primarily martial and judicial, but not comparable to a king. All Biblical Judges performed judicial duities and the institute of Judges was separated from the institute of King (First Book of Samuel 10:25).
The stories follow a consistent pattern: the people are unfaithful to Yahweh and he therefore delivers them into the hands of their enemies; the people repent and entreat Yahweh for mercy, which he sends in the form of a leader or champion (a “judge”); the judge delivers the Israelites from oppression and they prosper, but soon they fall again into unfaithfulness and the cycle is repeated.[4]
- Israel “does evil in the eyes of Yahweh”,
- the people are given into the hands of their enemies and cry out to Yahweh,
- Yahweh raises up a leader,
- the “spirit of Yahweh” comes upon the leader,
- the leader manages to defeat the enemy, and
- peace is regained.
Judges chapter 5 gives the same story in poetic form. This passage, often called The Song of Deborah, may date to as early as the 12th century BC[1] and is perhaps the earliest sample of Hebrew poetry. It is also significant because it is one of the oldest passages that portrays fighting women, the account being that of Jael, the wife of Heber, a Kenite tent maker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_poetry
http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Holidays/Fall_Holidays/Yom_Kippur/yom_kippur.html
It is used first by Amos and subsequently incorporated into prophetic and apocalyptic literature texts of the Bible. It relies on military images to describe the Lord as a “divine warrior” who will conquer his enemies. In certain prophetic texts of the Old Testament, the enemies of the Lord are Israel’s enemies and in these visions the day of the Lord brings victory for the people of ancient Israel. Other prophets use the imagery as a warning to Israel or its leaders and for them, the day of the Lord will mean destruction for the biblical nation of Israel. This concept develops throughout Jewish and Christian Scripture into a day of divine, apocalyptic judgment at the end of the world.[3]
The Day of the Lord is a biblical term and theme used in both the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and the New Testament. A related expression is the Great Day as in “The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.” which appears in both Old and New Testaments.
In the Hebrew Bible, a nazirite or nazarite, (in Hebrew: נזיר, nazir), refers to one who voluntarily took a vow described in Numbers 6:1–21. “Nazarite” comes from the Hebrew word nazir meaning “consecrated” or “separated”.[1] This vow required the man or woman to:
- Abstain from wine, wine vinegar, grapes, raisins, intoxicating liquors,[2] vinegar distilled from such substances,[3] and eating or drinking any substance that contains any trace of grapes.[4]
- Refrain from cutting the hair on one’s head; but to allow the locks of the head’s hair to grow.[5]
- Not to become ritually impure by contact with corpses or graves, even those of family members.[6]
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11395-nazarite
If one said, “May I be a Nazarite,” he became a Nazarite at once (Naz. i. 1). As a consequence of the universal custom, peculiar words and phrases, some of which are now unintelligible, were formulated for the taking of the vow (Naz. i. 1, ii. 1; p. 10a; Ned. 10a, b, et passim). “‘Let my hand, my foot be nazir,’ is not valid; ‘Let my liver [or some other vital part] be nazir,’ is valid” (Naz. 21b; Tos. to Naz. iii. 3). When the sanctuary was defiled at the time of the wars of the Maccabees the people assembled all the Nazarites before God as persons who could not be released from their vows (I Macc. iii. 49); yet when Nazarites returned from the Diaspora and found the sanctuary destroyed they were absolved from their vows (Naz. v. 4), although at the same time others took it (ib. v., end).
Queen Helena was a Nazarite for fourteen (or twenty-one) years (Naz. iii. 6; see Jew. Encyc. vi. 334, s.v. Helena), and Agrippa’s sister Berenice was at Jerusalem on account of a Nazarite vow taken before the outbreak of the great war against the Romans (Josephus,
The vow was taken also for the fulfilment of a wish, such as for the birth of a child
Women and slaves, who did not have full rights before the religious law, could take the Nazarite vow, but only with the consent of their husbands or owners, while the vow was not valid among the heathen (Naz. iv. 1-5, ix. 1, et passim). Fathers were allowed to dedicate minors, but mothers were forbidden to do so (ib. iv. 29b). The proper name “Nazira” may be connected with some such custom (Gen. R. lxxxii. end, et passim). Jesus is said to have been dedicated while still in the womb (Luke i. 15). Tradition regards not only Samson and Samuel, but also Absalom, as Nazarites, the last on account of his long hair (Naz. 4b). The duration of Nazariteship was voluntary, and ranged from one hour to a lifetime. In the former case, however, it really lasted for thirty days, which was also the period when no definite time was set (ib. i. 3; Sifre, Deut. 357). While the usual time was thirty days, two or more additional vows were generally taken, in which case each period was regarded as a separate Nazariteship, to be immediately followed, when duly completed, by the succeeding one (Maimonides, “Yad,” Nezirut, iii. 6). The period was at times measured by the number of days of the solar or the lunar year (Naz. i., end; Yer. Naz. 54b); or one might say: “Let the number of my Nazariteships be as the hairs of my head, or as the dust-particles of the earth, or as the sands of the sea” (Naz. i. 4). A Nazarite for life might cut his too abundant hair once a year, but a Samson Nazarite might not cut his hair under any circumstances, although he might defile himself by touching a corpse (ib. 4a). While no comb was allowed to touch the hair, it might be cleansed and arranged by other means (ib. vi., end). A proverb says, “Let the Nazarite go around the vineyard, but let him not approach it” (Shab. 13a and parallels; Num. R. x.).
Outside of Palestine and in the Middle Ages.
Nazarite vows were taken also outside of Palestine (Naz. v. 4; iii. 6). Besides Helena, Queen of Adiabene, Miriam of Palmyra is mentioned as a Nazarite (Tos. to Naz. iv. 10). While the Law stated that Nazariteship was equally valid in the country and outside it, in the time of the Temple and after its destruction there was a difference of opinion between the followers of Shammai and of Hillel: the former held that one who entered Palestine after the fulfilment of a prolonged period of Nazariteship must live there thirty days longer as a Nazarite, while the latter maintained that he must begin his vow anew (Naz. iii. 6; comp. Maimonides, “Yad,” Nezirut, ii. 20-21). The earlier and more universal custom agreed with the view of the school of Shammai, Josephus referring to the thirty days demanded, as above, in the passage already quoted—”B. J.” ii. 15, § 1. The observance of the Nazarite vow probably continued for many centuries, but was finally lost in asceticism and mysticism. No Nazarites are known in the Middle Ages.
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