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Herod Ascalonita (Herod the Great)
(The Great Hero, Born of Ashkelon)
Herod is a blashemous name: Greek version of the Hebrew "HaGibborim"
Genesis 6 ~ "Men of the name" and Giant offspring of HaNphiliym
Heroes - Those named in 1-Enoch ~ Of Old Time
("Beware the leaven of Herod")
Ashkelon - Gaza - Ekron - Ashdod - Gath
The five cities of the lords of the Philistines
Daniel 11:20
20. Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom: but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle.
He murdered all male children of Behtlehem under two years old, (interestingly some estimate this number to be at 144,000), in an attempt to kill Christ; the true "King of the Jews." (Matt. 2:1-12)
He ruled Judea, Samaria, and almost all of Palestine, under the watchfull eye of Rome. Herod the great had six sons; three of which he had killed before they could kill him. Those three were Antipater, Alexander, and Aristobulus. We know that Antipater was beheaded, a common practice amoung Arabs/Moslems even today. The Three that survived their father, reigned over his kingdom after his death, and are also referenced in the New Testament. Those three were Archelaus, Philip, and Antipas. They received their fathers kingdom divided amongst themselves by order of Augustus Caesar. In his final will; Herod had divided the kingdom between them, yet proclaimed Archelaus "King."
"King" Archelaus
Shortest rulership of the three sons. He ruled Judea and Samaria from 4BC until he was banished by Rome in 6AD: 9 years. The Jews had complained continually to Rome about his leadership.
His place in scripture is in Matt. 2:22 were Joseph decides to take Mary and Jesus to live in Galilee for fear of Herod's son Archelaus. (This was upon their return from Egypt.)
Philip the Tetrarch
Philip ruled the Northeast quadrant of Palestine, wherein lies the city Bethsaida. Philip is not mentioned as being significant in the New Testament, though he is listed as Tetrarch, (Lk.3:1). However, a city bearing his name is important enough to be mentioned; the city called "Caesarea Philippi" is where Peter confessed that Jesus was the Christ. Philip built the city.
Herod Antipas ~ The "Great Hero" ~ "Anti"-Like Father
Tetrarch of Galilee and Perea
Herod Antipas was the next to take the name Herod after his father Herod the Great Though he strove to be King of the Jews like his father; he was never given that title. In fact, that desire, (spurred on by his wife), was his ultimate downfall. He finally went to Rome seeking a Royal title and was subsequently banished by Caesar. He ruled from 4BC until 39AD. His places in scripture are these: In Matt. 14:1-2, Mark 6:14-29, and Luke 9:7-9, he has John the baptist arrested and later beheaded, (detecting a trend here?).
In Luke 13:32 Yeshua calls him "that fox" perhaps signifying a much more sinister reality than anyone might have seen on the surface of this uncrowned king. Finally, in Luke 23:6-12, Yeshua is sent to Herod Antipas by Pilate, (who realizes that Christ is from Galilee which was under the jurisdiction of Herod Antipas). Herod Antipas had the power to stop the innocent Christ Yeshua from being executed. Howerver he had his soldiers mocked Yeshua and sent him back to Pilate to be crucified.
Daniel 11:22
22. And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the Prince (nagiyd) of the Covenant.
Herod Agrippa I
The son of Aristobulus and Bernice, and a grandson of Herod the Great. At the beginning he was made Tetrarch of the small sliver of country formerly held by Lysanias II. He had become a close associate and confidant of Caesar Gaius (Caligula). On many an occasion the children of rulers were taken to Rome as captives to ensure that their father-kings ruled their respective kingdoms in accordance with Roman wishes. It is said that Agrippa I actually served as the personal tutor for Caligula in his youth. In 37AD Agrippa was given the Tetrarchy that Philip had ruled. In 39AD he acquired the former territory of Herod Antipas, his other uncle. Finally; in 41AD he was given most of what remained of Palestine, (Judea, Samaria, and Edom-Idumea) by Caesar Claudius. For a brief period Herod Agrippa I ruled all of the territory that his grandfather Herod the Great had ruled. For about three years he was "King of the Jews."
In Acts 12:1-19 He has James (the brother of John) put to death and throws the Apostle Peter in jail, thus begins the "state sponsored" persecution of the Christians, (For Agrippa "saw that it pleased the Jews"). The death of Herod Agrippa I is also recorded in Acts 12:21-23. I will quote it here because we are told that "the angel of the Lord" actually smote him, (for accepting worship from men and not giving the glory to YHWH).
Acts 12:21-23
21. And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them.
22. And the people gave a shout, saying, it is the voice of a god, and not of a man.
23. And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Herod Agrippa II
Upon the death of Agrippa I "Palestine" was put under the authority of the proconsul of Syria, (once again). Israel-Palestine was ruled temporarily by procurators such as Antonius Felix and Porcius Festus, and Florus. In 50AD, during the reign of Caesar Claudius, the son of Herod Agrippa I was given the former territory that was ruled initially by Philip and given authority over the Jewish Temple. He to took the name "Herod" and is known to us as Herod Agrippa II. The Roman Emporer Nero increased the authority and power of Agrippa II in 54AD. In 56AD he was also given Galilee and Perea. In Acts 26:1-28 we have the famous interview with the Apostle Paul before this Herod. Apparently Paul nearly persuaded Herod Agrippa II into becoming a Christian. In 66AD years of tension came to a head and war broke out between the various factions in Israel. Herod Agrippa II played his role for the government of Rome, and by the time Jerusalem and the Temple were destroyed, in 70AD, Herod Agrippa II was safe in Rome. Agrippa II had openly supported the Roman invasion of the Glorious Land in order to put down the rebellion, (which was caused primarily by procurator Florus' plundering the Temple treasury, the "corban").
After the war ended in 70AD Israel was converted into a Roman Province. When the Bar Cochba revolt was put down by the Romans, in 135AD, the remnant Jews were expelled from all of their land. Interestingly Herod Agrippa II, (the sixth of this Dynasty) died in 100AD, well after John had received the book of the Revelation, (regardless of which date one holds to). So when John is told of the seven kings of the beast: "five have fallen, one is, and the other is not yet come" it is possible that Herod Agrippa II might have been thought of as the "one is". Amazingly we have now come full circle in that part of the world. Once again we are quite possibly about to have an Arab ruler over Judea and Samaria, (the West Bank) and Hamas ruling from one of the five cities of the Canaanite kings, (Gaza) who has been promoted, supported with cashflow, and basically installed by the European powers, (Rome) and the West, (USA).
Revelation 17:1-18
1. And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2. With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
3. So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
5. And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
6. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
7. And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
8. The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
9. And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
10. And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
11. And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
12. And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13. These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
14. These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
15. And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
16. And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
17. For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
18. And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
The Herodian kings fulfill this prophecy to the very letter, (but not only them) even the blasphemous names: "Herod" (the great Hero, or the song-ode to the Hero, hence, "Hero-ode"). Rome is the physical embodiment of the spiritual hierarchy of evil that rules from the heavenly realm at present. Therefore Rome, meaning the shadows of the West from whence the "Prince of the power of the air" came across the sanctuary in Daniel 8 without touching the ground, could be the one destroyed by the ten kings who will give their kingdom to the Beast in a physical interpretation of the Scripture, (which is not the only Way). This understanding also historically ties into Daniel 11 if one realizes that Dan. 11:15-19 speaks of Antiochus 4 Epiphanes, ("he shall stand in the glorious land, which by his hand shall be consumed") and if verse 18, speaking of "a prince for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease" is speaking of the Maccabean revolt that ended the campaigns of Antiochus 4 Epiphanes. He was the last of the Seleucid Kings to invade Israel at the close of the Seleucid Empire. The Jews then ruled themselves until the Raiser of Taxes" Herod the Great came along ...
Antiochus IV Epiphanes
Daniel 11:15-17
15. So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mount, and take the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not withstand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to withstand.
16. But he that cometh against him shall do according to his own will, and none shall stand before him: and he shall stand in the glorious land, which by his hand shall be consumed.
17. He shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus shall he do: and he shall give him the daughter of women, corrupting her: but she shall not stand on his side, neither be for him.
The modern prophecy shepherds and scholars claim that this verse was fulfilled by Antiochus III the Great, (in order to make the rest of Scripture fit history) yet since Antiochus III was so warmly welcomed by the Jews when he entered the land he definately never "consumed" it. So the moderns claim that "consumed" here means that the holy land fell "completely under his sway" or influence. However, this is another totally forced interpretation of the original Hebrew. The word translated "consumed" actually means also "annihilation" and "complete destruction" because generally the word implies TERMINATION. The Hebrew word is "kalah" (HSN#03617) here is what Strong's has to say about it:
Strong's Hebrew Definition for # 03617
03617 // hlk // kalah // kaw-law' //
from 03615 ; TWOT - 982a; n f
AV - ...end 11, altogether 3, consume 3, consumption 2, consummation 1,
determined 1, riddance 1; 22
1) completion, termination, full end, complete destruction, consumption, annihilation
1a) completion
1a1) completely, altogether (adv)
1b) complete destruction, consumption, annihilation
Antiochus IV Epiphanes
The Maccabean (Hasmonean) Revolt
Daniel 11:18-19
18. After this shall he turn his face unto the isles, and shall take many: but a prince for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease; without his own reproach he shall cause it to turn upon him.
19. Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land: but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found.
Herod the Great
Daniel 11:20
20. Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom: but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle.
Herod Antipas
Daniel 11:21-22
21. And in his estate shall stand up a vile (person or thing, entity) to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
22. And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the Prince of the Covenant. (The Nagiyd-Prince and Meshiach of Daniel 9).
Here is where the "break" in the prophecy takes place. It is the same break that takes place at the mid-point of Daniel's 70th week; (which is a literal seven 24-hour days) when Meshiach Nagiyd Yeshua was "cut off in covenant."
Herod Antipas II ~ Anti-Christ (Scapegoat-`Aza'zel typology)
Daniel 11:23-31
23. And after the league made with him ("after they join-charm themselves to him") he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24. He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.
25. And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand: for they shall forecast devices against him.
26. Yea, they that feed of the portion of his meat shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow: and many shall fall down slain.
27. And both these kings' hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper: for yet the end shall be at the time appointed.
28. Then shall he return into his land with great riches; and his heart shall be against the holy covenant; (Qodesh-Briyth-Covenant not "league") and he shall do exploits, and return to his own land.
29. At the time appointed he shall return, and come toward the south; but it shall not be as the former, or as the latter.
30. For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant.
31. And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.
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Dynastic Transitions
Antiochus IV Epiphanies (175-164)
Defeated and turned away by the Maccabean Revolt (Dan. 11:18-19)
Hasmonean Rebel Leaders (167153 BC)
Judas Maccabeus 167160 BC
Jonathan Maccabaeus 160153 BC
Hasmonean High Priests and Kings (15337 BC)
Jonathan Maccabaeus 153142 BC
Simon Maccabaeus 142134 BC
John Hyrcanus I 134104 BC
Aristobulus I (also King) 104103 BC
Alexander Jannaeus (also King) 10376 BC
Alexandra Salome (Queen) 7667 BC
John Hyrcanus II (High Priest only) 7666 BC
Aristobulus II 6663 BC
John Hyrcanus II (High Priest only) 6340 BC
Antigonus 4037 BC
Herodian Dynasty (60 BCAD 100)
Antipater the Idumaean (Governor of Judaea) 6043 BC
Herod (Governor of Galilee) 4740 BC
Phasael (Governor of Jerusalem) 4740 BC
Herod the Great "King of the Jews" 374 BC
Herod Archelaus (Ethnarch of Judaea) 4 BCAD 6
Herod Antipas (Tetrarch of Galilee) 4 BCAD 39 (No Crown)
Herod II (Tetrarch of Batanaea) 4 BCAD 34
Herod Philip II (Tetrarch of Ituraea and Trachonitis) 4 BC-AD 34
Herod Agrippa I
Tetrarch of Batanaea 3741
Tetrarch of Galilee 4041
"King of the Jews" 4144AD
Herod Agrippa II (Tetrarch Chalcis 5052, Tetrarch Batanaea) AD 50100
"King of the Jews" 54-70AD
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