From MARDUK: ANUNNAKI KING OF EARTH by Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA) & Janet Kira Lessin (CEO, Aquarian Media)
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Jews, led by the Maccabees, rebelled in 168 BCE against Assyrian- Greek rule in Judea & won independence for 80 years. When Alexander died in 322, his generals divided his empire among them. Ptolemy I, who had headquarters in Egypt, seized Alexander’s African turf & Judea and Jerusalem. Ptolemy successor Seleucid & his successors took Egypt, Syria, Anatolia, Mesopotamia & Alexander’s Asian lands. For the Judaeans, the Seleucids became the new Assyrians. The Greek overlords worshipped Greek gods, especially Alexander’s father Zeus. Ptolemy & then Seleucid and his descendants ruled Jerusalem.
SELEUCID KINGS CONQUERED TOOK JERUSALEM FROM PTOLEMIES TO PREPARE FOR EXPECTED RETURN OF NIBIRU
Ptolemy successors in Egypt “continued his tolerant attitude toward others’ religions, arranged for the translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek & gave Judea’s Jews religious freedom in Judea & in their growing communities in Egypt.”
SELEUCIDS FORCED GREEK WORSHIP IN THE TEMPLE
“Unlike the Ptolemies, Seleucid rulers in Syria imposed Hellenic culture & religion in their domains.” They stationed troops in Jerusalem & limited the power of the Jewish priests at the Temple. The Seleucids raised taxes to train wrestlers instead of studying the Torah, raised shrines to Greek gods & stationed soldiers to make sure Jews worshipped the Greek gods, especially Zeus & not Enlil-Yahweh.
Syrian Antiochus III prompted a short-lived rebellion in 187 BCE when he introduced statues of Marduk-Zeus & the Greek pantheon into the temple.
But in 168 BCE, Antiochus IV Epiphanes again pushed the Greek gods for the Temple. In 167 BCE he forcefully entered the Temple’s inner sanctum & confiscated the golden ritual objects there. He put a Greek governor in charge of Jerusalem.
Next to the Temple, Antiochus built a fortress for a permanent garrison of his soldiers. “The Jews again rebelled Antiochus again crushed them.”
Antiochus forbade circumcision which marked Jews as followers of Yahweh. Antiochus banned the Jewish Sabbath, put a statue of Zeus in their temple & had Greek priests sacrifice pigs there.
MATTATHIAS MACCABEUS SPARKED MUTINY AGAINST GREEK RULE WHEN HE KILLED A GREEK OFFICIAL WHO TRIED TO FORCE SACRIFICE TO GREEK GODS.
When a Greek official ordered Jewish priest Mattathias Maccabeus perform a Hellenic sacrifice, Mattathias, loyal to Yahweh, killed the official & touched off a rebellion that gave Judea 80 years of independence.
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