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Chapter 7-The end of the Nazarenes  
     
1.
 It is hard to know whether Paul of Tarsus, St Luke (Josephus ben Matthias, grandson of Ananus the Elder) and the House of Ananus could have predicted the total demise of the Nazarenes as a result of the civil war and uprising after they murdered James the blood brother of Jesus.
  
2.
 It is also hard to know whether Paul of Tarsus and the Syrian Jewish High Priests could have anticipated the reaction from the royal bloodlines of Ireland and their supporters right across the Roman Empire. There is strong evidence there were uprisings around the death of James in Celtic communities and lands. However, much of the history has been deliberately destroyed.
 
3.
 Certainly when “St” Paul returned from France with his trophy, the severed head of Jesus Christ around 61/62 CE, the family that had founded Christianity must have felt emboldened that they could eliminate the Nazarenes forever.
  
4.
 But when they did brutally murder James the Just, the blood brother of Jesus and national hero in 62 CE, the whole household of Ananus, including “St Luke” (Josephus) were arrested, imprisoned and only sent to Rome in 63/64 CE.
  
5.
 Even though like Paul, the family of High Priests were Roman Citizens, a fact that meant the Roman governor could not simply have them summarily executed under Roman law without a trial, their actions would have certainly meant they faced possibly death.
  
6.
 As it turned out, the hundreds of thousands of people who had been saved from starvation were outraged by the actions of the Christians and the High priests and demanded the blood of Paul of Tarsus and the others.
 
7.
 The Apostles of Jesus who were also Zealots became overnight generals of massive armies of loyal but untrained soldiers willing to die to rid Judea of the evil of the Christians and the Sadducees.
  
8.
 But against the full military might of the Roman army, these untrained people and even the guerilla sicarii were no match. Thousands died in battle, and even tens of thousands more died by committing suicide.
  
9.
 Josephus (“St Luke”) makes frequent cold hearted references to this throughout his books referring to staggering numbers of people including women and children of whole towns and villages that chose to take their own lives rather than return to having to live under Rome, the Sadducees and the Christian influences.
  
10.
 When Simon Peter eventually engineered the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE upon the same anniversary date as Nebuchadnezzar the Great as a lasting symbol to the evil nature of the Sadducees, most of the Nazarenes were dead of scattered.
  
11.
 Except for a handful of Apostles and refugees around the Roman world, the Nazarenes had been obliterated.
  
12.
 The Christians of Paul themselves had not fared much better, except for some key historical figures, most notably Josephus (St Luke). If not for this grandson of the Patriarch Ananus the Elder crafting his survival and eventual political redemption and safe exile, Christianity could well have crumbled into obscurity and the Nazarenes might have regrouped.
  
13.
 Instead, Josephus was able to effectively able to write the Nazarenes out of history, to redeem his family history, to shift all blame to the non-descript evil zealots and at the same time eliminate the legitimacy of the Essenes regarding the validity of the Old testament and history of Akhenaten.
  
14.
 Josephus (St Luke) also was able in private to regroup the work of the now executed Paul of Tarsus and establish the core framework of the Christian Bible including the Old Testament and four Gospels Christians worship today.
  
15.
 He helped sustain those few Christian leaders and families that survived the great purge after the attempted destruction of Rome.
  
16.
 While Paul was instrumental in the murder of key figures of the Nazarenes such as Jesus, the Magdalene, (“Virgin”) Mary, James the brother of Jesus and his sisters, it is Josephus both as the “historian” and as “Luke” the Christian who has ensured few people know the extent of the Nazarenes, nor the legitimacy of the true Gnostic message of Jesus.
  
17.
 But like all things in history, even a well written lie, such as the works of Josephus, eventually unravel.
  

 
 
 

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