The King Mystery in Brief

  'The King Mystery. Yahweh and the Daughter of Zion.' is a new and very different interpretation of the Bible. It deals with the mystical background of Judaism and Christianity. The worldview of the time was mysterious and magical. Everything physical had a spiritual side, and this is also how the prophets of the Bible understood the world. Therefore, the Bible must be interpreted with mystical symbolism in order to be understood.

  Early Christianity was a mystery cult, one among many at the time. It originated from a Baptist sect of which John the Baptist was the leader. John the Baptist fervently desired the king back in heaven and therefore also on earth. In the ancient world, what happened in the one realm, had also to occur in the other – mysteriously.

  In the past, the god-king Yahweh had come every Pentecost to a sacred marriage with the Daughter of Zion, who was the land and the people. But she was a harlot, who committed adultery with other gods, so Yahweh rejected her and forsook her. The Kingdom ceased. For centuries, the king had now been gone, and instead the priests and Pharisees ruled over the people. With the Law of Moses in hand, they had transformed the cult of the king into a cult of priests.

  But now John baptized the people, he drowned and rebirthed the Daughter of Zion, so that she was once again an untouched virgin – "... a people prepared for the Lord." [Luke 1.17]. Jesus was also baptized and reborn as the son of Yahweh and king of Israel. John believed that by doing exactly as in the past, whether real or symbolic, the cult of the king would return. Now the god-king was to come again to his sacred marriage with the Daughter of Zion, just as in the past. Everything would be fine.

  But the priests and Pharisees would not relinquish their power over the people. They had the king crucified as a criminal. The Jewish kingdom was not restored on earth and, therefore, not in heaven. The Daughter of Zion was still a harlot, now committing fornication with the Herodian princes and the Romans. Jerusalem and the temple of Yahweh were destroyed, and the people were driven from the land.

  A Jewish kingdom was impossible, but the Christians refused to accept that the dream of the kingdom was over. The Baptist sect, however, was soon split into several factions. Jesus' brother James continued the Baptist sect with himself as leader. However, Simon Peter challenged James by also offering himself as king – at least according to the evangelists.

  Paul, in particular, broke the framework of the new king cult by inviting the whole world into his mystical community. Paul replaced the Daughter of Zion with "the Daughter of the Church". It was now no longer just the Jews whom God's son Jesus had to save. The god (now Jesus) was to continue coming for a sacred wedding, but now with the Christian congregation, the Church (the Daughter of the Church). Paul writes to his congregation: "... For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ." [2 Corinthians 11.2].

  Jesus was to be fully God and fully man, for the mystical world required that what happens in heaven also happens on earth. In the kingdoms of the past, Yahweh had been the king of the gods. Here, a father and son in a divine royal lineage made sense. Paul, originally a Pharisee, practised monotheism, the belief in only one god, and he continued to do so. But the mysterious relationship between the Son and the Father in a mythology with only one god remained difficult to comprehend. It resulted, a few hundred years later, in an accepted interpretation in the form of the Trinity dogma of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

  The mystery drama of the past repeated itself every year with the death and rebirth of the god. It is still like that today, as every year Jesus is born, dies, and is reborn. Even now, Christians are waiting for Jesus to come again and take the "Daughter of the Church" as his wife.