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Jesus Must Die Again


"Jesus Must Die Again!"

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NYC City Police Report

July 5 10 a.m.

Police officer Jason A. Smith took the initial call and responded to report of a disturbed indivual walking about South Bronx naked, bleeding and screaming gibberish. Smith approached the subject, who was wandering the streets, screaming. Subject was 6-foot-tall, of possible Middle Eastern descent. Subject was wandering the street looking intently at automobiles as if he had never seen an automobile. Subject appeared to be on drugs or undergoing a psychotic break down. Subject was unable to communicate in English, Spanish or Arabic. Subject had no identification or money on him. Subject appeared to be dehydrated and in considerable pain from what looked like whip marks. Subject was bleeding from many wounds but appeared to be otherwise healthy. Subject refused to cooperate, and back up was called. Patrol Smith radioed the station for advice. Lt. Amos contacted Bellevue Hospital and arranged for an emergency incarceration, as the subject was clearly a danger to himself and others. Four police officers approached the subject and subdued him with a tazer. He was brought to Bellevue and admitted at 1130. Dr. Johnson was the admitting physician.

Case initially closed July 5 1130

Dr. Johnson Case notes

Case of John Doe, Aka Bleeding Man from the Bronx Aka Jesus

July 5 1130 a.m.

Subject was found wandering around South Bronx this morning muttering gibberish to himself. Subject was clearly delusional, and appeared capable of becoming violent and was brought to the hospital for evaluation. Subject was bleeding from various wounds that appeared to have been caused by whips. Subject appeared to be of Middle Eastern descent but did not seem to communicate in Arabic, English, Spanish or any other language. Subject was taken to the clinic for first aid treatment, x-rays, blood tests, and x-rays. Subject was also given a DNA screening and fingerprinted. Subject was then given sedatives and allowed to sleep.

My assistant, Dr. Amerada, suggested that he be allowed to interview the subject. Dr. Amerada said that he thought the subject might be speaking Amharic, which is spoken in his native land. The interview was taped. Transcript follows:

Dr. A: Hello. Can you understand my language?

Subject: Yes, praise the lord, finally someone I can talk to. Where am I? What is this place? How did I get here? Why am I here?

Dr. A: Okay, good. Let's start at the basis. I'll answer your questions after you answer a few of mine. Okay?

Subject: Fine. Ask me anything.

Dr. A: Okay, what is your name? Where are you from? What were you doing in the Bronx? How did you get those wounds? What is your usual occupation?

Subject: Okay. My name is Jesus of Nazarene. My father was Joseph of Nazarene. I was a carpenter. I was also a part-time preacher. I got into trouble with the local authorities because I had denounced the corruption in the Temple and the unholy alliance with the Roman authorities. Some of my followers thought I was the son of God. I do admit that I seemed to be able to sense divine will and had preached that the Messiah would come soon. However, the Son of God? I do not know if I am or not. I do know that I can hear the voice of God, while others can not. And that I have a divine mission to spread the word of the Lord. That much I know. I also know that my followers sold me out to the Romans and I was condemned to die. I was whipped, flogged, and left to die nailed to a cross on a hilltop like a common criminal along with thieves, murderers and other criminal elements. Everything told about 10 of us were crucified that day. The next thing I knew I found myself in your city streets. I was confused – I had never seen so many people and strange carts. Everything was just too much. I screamed out thinking I was in some sort of Hell. Then uniformed soldiers shot me at with some strange weapon and I found myself here. I still do not know where I am or why I did not die that day.

Dr. A: You claim you are Jesus. The Jesus born of Mary and Joseph that the Gospels talk about?

Subject: My name is Jesus. My father was Joseph, my mother was Mary, and my brother is James and my wife was Mary Magdalene. However, I do not know what these Gospels are that you mentioned.

Dr. A: Okay. Let us see. You were left to die on that cross when?

Subject: In the springtime. I do not know the date exactly but it was early spring. There were quite a few other so-called criminals put to death that day by order of Pontius Pilate, the corrupt ruler of Jerusalem. The Priests wanted me to be killed as they thought I was a troublemaker and would ruin their cozy relations with the Romans. All I was preaching was that the end times were coming and that we must rise up against our oppressors. Can I ask you a few questions?

Dr. A: sure.

Subject: Okay where am I? What is this city? Am I on the earth? Am I in heaven or Hell? Why was I brought here?

Dr. A: Okay. You are in a city called New York City. It is on the planet Earth. The Roman Emperor fell 1500 hundred years ago. When Jesus died, his followers founded a religion that has flourished since then. Most people in this country believed that Jesus was the Son of God and that he died for our sins. If you are that Jesus, it is a miracle that you have come back after 2000 years. However, I think it is more likely that you are suffering from a mental illness and we will help you recover your real identity. However, you have to help us. Can you tell us where you were living before you went to the Bronx yesterday?

Subject: I am not crazy. My name is Jesus but I do not know if I am the Jesus that you speak of. The Roman Empire is no more? 2000 years passed? I do not know how I got here. I have never been to this city and this country. I was living in Jerusalem when I was arrested

Dr. A: Okay. Let's take a break. Would you like to eat something?

Subject: yes. Some fish, bread and rice would be nice.

Dr. A: Okay, I will order in.

Subject: How did you do that? What is that device? Who are you people?

Dr A: It is a telephone – a device that allows us to communicate long distances. It was invented 200 years ago. If you are who you claim to be, you have a lot of catching up to do. We want to help you discover who you really are.

Subject: I am Jesus, that is all. I am not the Son of God. I am a simple carpenter and a prophet of God. That's was my mission. I want to know more about the people who call themselves Christians.

Dr. A: Well, we can give some reading material once you are able to read and write. Can you write?

Subject: Yes, I can read and write Latin and Hebrew and Greek too. I liked to read as a hobby. What language do your people usually speak?

Dr. A: English, the major world language today. It is derived from that spoken by those people living in Britain in your era.

Subject: I want to rest. Tomorrow can I go out into the city and walk around? I want to experience my new surroundings. In addition, I want someone to start teaching me how to speak and read your language. I believe that my mission is to spread the word to your people. I have so much to learn and do.

End of Interview with Subject

Dr. Tom Johnson was watching the interview via a one-way mirror. He was moved deeply by the experience as he was raised as a Catholic but was no longer church going. Just too busy and besides he was pretty skeptical these days, particularly with the radical Christians making inroads into every profession including the mental health field, which had for a long time been dominated by agnostics and non-religious secularists. The radical right was forever denouncing the evils of secular humanism. Tom did not know what that was exactly other than it seemed to described him and his friends.

That night Tom went out to a party on the upper West Side on W 98th and mentioned to several of his friends at the party that he had interviewed the "bleeding man from the Bronx"

"I think he is suffering from some religious delusion. He was found wondering the streets muttering gibberish and bleeding from wounds. He did not seem to understand any language we tried until my college, Dr. Amerada tried speaking Amharic. The subject understood that and claimed that he was Jesus, and was crucified by the Romans for being a troublemaker and formatting revolution. Complete nonsense of course."

Sara Rosen, a fellow psychologist who had a private practice specializing in cases of religious delusions was fascinated. She asked Tom for more details. Tom demurred, saying that he had probably already said too much.

Sara called the next day and offered to treat the “Bleeding Man” pro bono provided they could find some place he could stay, as the 72 hours of involuntary commitment would run out soon.

Tom called Dr. Amerada into his office. Tom started by asking for an update on the “Bleeding Man” case.

Jerry responded," Well, you may find this hard to believe but I am inclined to believe him. Either he is who he is claiming to be or this is one of the most unusual religious delusion cases I have ever heard about. I understand that our friend Sara is interested in meeting him?"

"Jerry, Sara has even offered to treat him pro-bono if we can find a place for him to stay. What I want to do is get him out of here before the media descends upon us with stories of 'Jesus being locked up in Bellevue' etc get out. I figure we have probably until the end of the day before someone talks to the media. Any ideas?"

"Well, since I believe him I would like to help. I think some of my Coptic Christian friends can hide him away in the Bronx. You know that reporters usually do not like to go over there – too dangerous etc. My friends could put him up and help by having someone teach him English and basic survival skills. However, to pull this off we need a plan – let me talk to my friends. Do not worry I will not talk to the press and my friends well some of them are afraid of immigration so they will want to keep him hidden as well. One thing we could do though is have our police friends run a fingerprint and record search – see if any missing person reports match up and see if there are any immigration records with his fingerprints on it. However, if he is an illegal there may be no record. And if there are no records, it might lead more credence to his claims. Who knows?"

"Jerry, I'll leave the details to you but make sure no one talks. We will say if asked that he was released in the custody of his cousin who claims that he took some illegal drugs and had a bad trip. He is no longer dangerous and therefore had to be released. Standard policy etc. I'll talk to my friends in the police and see if we can get a discrete record check done."

About 5 pm that night Jerry Amerada had made arrangements. Several Coptic Christians came to the hospital in a van and after filling out the paperwork took the “Bleeding Man” from the hospital. He was marked down as "released to relatives. Identity not confirmed. No longer dangerous too self or others. Relatives promised to pay hospital bills which will be sent to them."

Jesus was taken to the South Bronx and to a Coptic Christian Church. He was given a room and a tutor. Dr. Amerada came by daily to catch up on him. After several weeks had gone by, Tom was feeling pleased. The media had forgotten the story. No one seemed to have spoken out of school and Tom thought to himself that it was just another weird case and he vowed to call Sara up one of these days to see if she had indeed met the “Bleeding Man”. Tom still could not bring himself to call him Jesus.

A few days latter Dr. Johnson received a call from his contact in the Police. David Smith, a NYC cop, who also served as the NYC liaison to DHS called Dr. Johnson with strange news.

"Well, doc I found something out about your mystery man. I got the medical reports, the results of the DNA and fingerprints, and record checks. You are not going to believe it.

"Try me."

"Okay, doc. According to the blood work, this man could not be a twentieth century person. He lacks what shall I say preservatives and other chemicals that everyone alive today have in their blood stream. His dental records show no evidence that he has ever been to a dentist although his teeth are in good shape. There are no fingerprints anywhere that match his fingerprints. And no DNA matches either. There are no records at all on this guy. And his rags were at least 1500 to 3000 years old and contain fibers that are not used anywhere but might have been used in biblical times. I also took the transcripts you gave me to a guy at Colombia. The guy says that this guy is speaking ancient Amharic which was the major language that the Jews of Jesus's time spoke along with Hebrew. In short, all the physical evidence and that the fact that this guy does not appear to have ever created any paper trail anywhere leads me to believe he could be telling the truth, however unlikely that may be."

Dr Johnson thanked the good Lt and hung up. He was profoundly shaken by the whole incident and decided to call Sara up to see if she had met with him yet.

"Sara, Tom Johnson here. How are you doing?"

"Just fine. I assumed you called to check up on our Jesus case or did you call to ask me out?"

"Both actually. But first to business. So what do you think? Have you met him? Lt. Smith, our NYC police contact did some checking on him for me. It's the strangest thing I have every heard. According to our friend this man Jesus could not be from the 20th century as his blood contains no preservatives which everyone has to some degree or another. And he has never been to a dentist which was very common 2000 years ago but very unusual now a day. And there are no records of him having existing in the U.S. – no fingerprints, no DNA, no records at all. And the rags he was wearing when he came in are at least 1500 to 3000 years old."

"Tom, you know that I deal with people every day who claim that they are Jesus. I have never once come close to believing any of them. Part of it is because I am Jewish and never believed that Jesus was the son of God. But I tell you, the more time I spend with him, the more I become convinced we are dealing with the real deal. And you know what? I've agreed to suspend my practice and help Jesus full time as an advisor. Jesus asked about you and wanted me to call you and bring you aboard as well. Why don't you take some time off and join us?"

"Sara, I would consider it but first you have to have dinner with me. Tonight 8 pm? I'll meet you at your office and we'll go together. Thai okay?"

"Tom, fine by me. We can talk further when we meet. I am going to write up my professional opinion on this case and want you to review it over dinner."

Jerry was profoundly affected by Jesus and he believed him and wanted to help him in his new ministry. The Coptic Christian church members were all sworn to secrecy by Jesus himself. Jerry had explained a bit about contemporary Christian society and the divisions between Catholics, Orthodox, and the many different types of Protestants.

Jesus was making considerable progress in learning English and could communicate basic English and had started learning to read. Jesus told the church one Sunday that he felt he should help the church out and offered to pay for his room and board as the repairperson for the Church.

The Chief priest had to explain to Jesus the facts of life. "Jesus, if I hire you, I have to prove that you are here legally. You have no ID, no history, and no records. If you start working, you would draw attention to yourself. DHS might even come by to talk to you. You might even be arrested. Once you are arrested if you claim to be Jesus we will not be able to help you. Half the population in this country will think you are a fraud, the other half will want to worship you as the son of God. Everything you say will be written down and interpreted. "

"Father Azeri, I appreciate your help. I appreciate you taking me in, feeding me, and putting up with me. Nevertheless, I cannot live off your charity any more. I know I was brought back for a reason. It is to combat the same sort of people that were ruining the Church in my days. The money changers. The philistines. They have sold my religious teachings out. They did not understand me then and they do not understand me now.

Let us make a deal. I will stay here quietly for six more months until I can communicate my message in English and until I understand a bit more about modern society and life. In the meantime, my tutor tells me that there are fake ID's and identity documents I can obtain? "

"Jesus, my friend, you make it difficult to say no. Okay, you stay here for six months more as our guest. At that point we will get you some sort of paper work and see what we can do to get you a job and money. "

"Dr. Azeri. There is something more you can and will do for me. Once I am ready to begin my campaign to clean up Christianity you will support me in all that I do. It will be dangerous. I think the enemies of the truth faith are all around and have taken over the true faith. Once I start preaching it will become very dangerous."

Dr. Azeri assured him that he would have his support and told his staff that Jesus would be staying for six more months as their guest and that he will start preaching again in six months’ time.

During the next six months, Jesus worked hard on learning English and learning all he could about the modern world including the history of religion. He was dismayed and mortified at what had been done in his name and in the name of God. Jesus knew in his heart that he was brought back to purify Christianity and to unify mankind by preaching a new religious message. He began to delve deeply into Islam and Buddhist teachings and spent his days on the internet or in the library. He visited mosques and Buddhist temples in NYC. Jesus signed up for various e-mail religious sites and began posting messages on various bulletin boards. Word slowly began spreading out among various belief sites that a man calling himself Jesus and claiming to be the one true messiah had come back and was living in NYC waiting to begin his mission to planet earth.

Leaders of right wing Christian groups and the Catholic Church in Rome soon heard from their followers that someone claiming to be Jesus was on the internet denouncing modern day Christian leaders for betraying the true meaning of Christianity.

One of Jesus' postings got Rev. Jones, the leader of the new Christian movement in the U.S. very angry. Reverend Jones was an imposing man, 6 feet 7 inches tall and still looked like the football player he had been. He played a couple of seasons with the Oakland Raiders in the NFL and after retiring due to a bad back, had the calling and went back to college and got a divinity degree from Bob Jones University. He was a grandson of Bob Jones so he had gotten a full scholarship and instant credibility among the new Christian right and he had perfected the fire and brimstone method of Southern Baptist preaching and was famous for his sermons against the evils of the modern world.

He soon got involved with the Christian right movement and had spent ten years trying to bring together the various right wing Christian groups together into a new unified movement, which he labeled the "new Christian movement". His goals as listed on his web page was simple:

"We aim at nothing less than a take over of the US Government by the Christian movement and the establishment of a biblical centric government in the U.S.

The US will become a shining star spreading Christian values worldwide.

We will ban all immoral conduct and shut down the adult entertainment industry.

We will clean up America by banning drugs, alcohol and tobacco products.

Premarital and extra marital sex will be illegal and severely punished.

Homosexuality will be illegal and punished by death.

Abortion will be illegal.

We will make Christianity a State Religion. Non-Christians will be free to worship at home, but will not be allowed to publicly recruit.

The Islamic faith will be made illegal and all Mosques will be shut down and all Muslim believers will be given a choice – convert to Christianity or leave the U.S. They will be given one year to comply.

Immigration laws will be made fairer – workers will be allowed to come but only Christians of good character will be allowed to become citizens.

What had gotten the good Reverend's ire was the so-called Jesus denouncing the work of the New Christian movement as charlatans, frauds and anti-Christian – in league with Satan. Jesus went on to denounce each and every one of the New Christian points listed on the web page. Jesus called for Christians to leave all the existing Churches and to form new Christian communities based on Christ's true teachings of love, respect, tolerance, good works and renunciation of worldly processions and goods. Christ said the leaders of the new Christian movement, the Pope and the leaders of the Orthodox Church were the same people as were the moneychangers he threw out of the temple 2000 years ago. He ended his message too Reverend Jone's web site saying,

"Those who preach in my name are not true Christians. They have been corrupted by greed, money, power and listen not to God but to Satan. I demand that they leave their positions of power and responsibility or else I will throw them out of their churches, as they are false leaders and prophets. I say this in my name, Jesus Christ the one and only, risen from the dead and returned to earth as your messiah.

Jesus working through his Coptic church friends sent variations of this message to every Christian church web site in the world and to all the major media outlets.

Jesus proclaimed, "I have come back from the dead to rise up and take over the church and proclaim the true meaning of Christianity. I denounce those who are preaching in my name, particularly those in the American Christian right as well as the Catholic Church and the various other branches of Christianity. I will start a crusade to restore the true meaning of Christianity to the world. I will start by walking across the US and then the world preaching everywhere I go the truth. God will surely help spread my message and God will punish all the false prophets and evils ones who have stolen the church from me. You have been warned."

Rev. Jones was furious and begin calling on all of the religious leaders he knew in the Christian community. He was not going to let this charlatan; this fraud disrupts their plans. He called for a meeting of the senior leadership to be held at his headquarters. He also invited representatives of other denominations including the Catholic Church, the Orthodox church and others to join him in an all-day conference, which he dubbed Justice Sunday 25 – a continuation of the biannual Justice Sunday events that had been held for the last few years to rally the religious right around the cause of the day. And this of course was the most momentous moment in Christianity. He did not invite representatives of the so called new Jesus movement.

Jesus heard of this meeting and sent out another mass e-mail press release denouncing the meeting of heretics. He proclaimed that he would hold a rally near the headquarters the same day.

Thousands of Church leaders showed up for the Conference. Thousands of other Church leaders boycotted the conference and went to the rally for new Jesus. It was an event split = conservative Christians went to the Justice Sunday rally, liberal and progressive Christians and secular liberals flocked to the false Jesus Rally. Rev. Jones started the conference off by denouncing the radical nonsense being preached by the false Jesus. He recalled the bible said that in the end times there would be many false prophets and that this Jesus was obviously a false prophet if not the anti-Christ. His preaching against the established order, against the American government and against big business were dangerous and stirring up trouble. Something must be done to stop him as he is obviously gaining a following and more importantly donations to the member church and attendance at churches across the world was dropping as more and more people flocked to join the false Jesus in his new Christian communities.

Reverend Jones concludes, "Something must be done to stop this anti-Christ, this fraud, this false prophet sent to us by Satan himself. I propose that we have a liberal secular humanist type, preferably associated with the Democratic party, assassinate the false Jesus. Then we organize a funeral for Jesus and blame the secularists for having killed Jesus a second time. And over time we can all get behind the false Jesus's memory and proclaim that the Messiah was thwarted in divine mission by the forces of secular humanists.

Let us recall the message of Revelations, chapter 12 and 13, which reads:

And a great portent appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars;
2: she was with child and she cried out in her pangs of birth, in anguish for delivery.
3: And another portent appeared in heaven; behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems upon his heads.
4: His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven, and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to bear a child, that he might devour her child when she brought it forth;
5: she brought forth a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne,
6: and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, in which to be nourished for one thousand two hundred and sixty days.
7: Now war arose in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting against the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought,
8: but they were defeated and there was no longer any place for them in heaven.
9: And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world -- he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
10: And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.
11: And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.
12: Rejoice then, O heaven and you that dwell therein! But woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in great wrath, because he knows that his time is short!"
13: And when the dragon saw that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had borne the male child.
And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems upon its horns and a blasphemous name upon its heads.
2: And the beast that I saw was like a leopard, its feet were like a bear's, and its mouth was like a lion's mouth. And to it the dragon gave his power and his throne and great authority.
3: One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth followed the beast with wonder.
4: Men worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, "Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?"
5: And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months;
6: it opened its mouth to utter blasphemies against God, blaspheming his name and his dwelling, that is, those who dwell in heaven.

13: It works great signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in the sight of men;
14: and by the signs which it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast, it deceives those who dwell on earth, bidding them make an image for the beast which was wounded by the sword and yet lived;
15: and it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast so that the image of the beast should even speak, and to cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain.
16: Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead,
17: so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.
18: This calls for wisdom: let him who has understanding reckon the number of the beast, for it is a human number, its number is six hundred and sixty-six.

The beast my friends is standing down the street and is addressing the world pretending to be the Lord Jesus Christ. He must be defeated. Ladies and gentlemen. It is clear that end times are approaching and we have to choose – whether to follow the false Christ, the anti-Christ into the pit of hell or fight him for God and the true Savior. I for one am not prepared to accept his false hoods as I know they come from the devil. So join us, in fighting the anti-Christ. The false Jesus must be killed and Jesus's death be blamed on our real enemies. Are you with me? "

There was much discussion that went on late into the night but finally a consensus emerged that Jesus must die again! And this time the secularists, the non-believers, the unchurched elites would pay the price and be ever branded as "Christ Killers." The plot to assassinate Jesus was launched on that Justice Sunday 25.

Over the next six months the followers of Jesus held rally after rally as Jesus walked across the U.S. and North America addressing thousands of people in each of his crusade stops. The forces of the old Christian Churches were increasingly aghast.

Reverend Jones continued his secret plotting to assassinate Jesus. Jesus continued his harsh critique of the existing Christian churches and of modern society. He is interviewed on national TV and has become a world wide celebrity. He is quoted everywhere. 60% of Americans believe he is the real deal. And the secular elites are getting nervous as well. Jesus is equally condemning of Hollywood, Washington and Wall Street, which he denounces with as much fervor as he does the corruption of the Christian churches. He demands meetings with the President, with leaders of Congress and with the Pope. Everything turn him down on one excuse or another.

Dr. Johnson, Sara Rosen, Dr. Azeri, and the other early members of Jesus's inner circle are worried that someone might try to assassinate Jesus as Jesus has made many powerful enemies. Jesus dismisses their fears but agrees to have bodyguards follow him everywhere.

One day Jesus arrives in DC and organizes a sit in at the White House. He demanding that the President meet with him and is also demanding that the President withdraw all military forces from Iraq, Iran and the military East and end all military campaigns.

The President refuses to meet with Jesus at the urging of Rev. Jones and the Christian right. They denounce Jesus as a fraud and claim he is being manipulated by shadowy figures in the Middle East, possibly Iranian terrorists as well as misguided liberals who are soft on terrorists.

The President and his surrogates argue that the real Jesus would be calling for the destruction of the evil ones – the purveyors of hate in the Mideast and in favor of freedom that the U.S. is trying to spread everywhere.

Jesus turns to his new disciples and says, “It is happening again. We are powerless to stop them. I will be sacrificed, given up to death. I hope that this time you will carry on my true teachings, love one another, and work to promote peace and understanding among all of our people.

I am not a Christian, I am not a god, I am merely a vessel through which the higher light shines. Carry on my children in my name and together perhaps we will win the kingdom of heaven, provided we are worthy of it.”

That night as Jesus is addressing his flock outside the White House, a man walks up to the front of the crowd and pulls out a machine gun and kills Jesus, Dr. Johnson, Sara Rosen, and Dr. Azeri, before he is subdued by the body guards. As he is being taken out, he yells out, "Jesus is the Anti-Christ and the enemy of America. Death to the false prophets.”


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