(Before It's News)
Assume, just for a moment, that, regardless of the fact that such a doctrine has never been proven to be the Truth, the Doctrine of “resurrection” is to be understood as the Egyptian ‘god of the dead’ (and Pharisaical) doctrine of the physical raising of a dead body from the grave, a doctrine which established the rationale for mummification.
In that case, Chapter 12, verse 13 of the Book of Daniel is to be understood as meaning that the body of Daniel will be physically raised from the grave.
But does anyone know where Daniel’s grave is?
Or is there a closed circuit television camera focused on that grave for the purpose of proving the eventual physical raising of the body of Daniel?
Not to my knowledge.
Thus, we have a ‘problem’:
If today, or a hundred or a thousand years from now, an elderly (?) gentleman were to walk into the offices of the Chief Rabbinate in Jerusalem and claim that he was the prophet Daniel ‘raised from the dead’, he would have to be able not only to direct the Chief Rabbis to the grave out of which he emerged; he would also have to be able to prove (through some kind of ‘documentation’?) that it was, in fact, the grave of the prophet Daniel.
But, ultimately, it would depend upon whether the Chief Rabbis chose to believe his assertions or not.
Unfortunately, however, the Truth of the matter is no less ‘problematic’ than the lie.
Given that “the resurrection” refers, instead, to the revelation of the memories of previous lives (referred to by Jesus in his reply to the Sadducees as the “angels in heaven”)—and, thus, that the Doctrine of “resurrection” is a Doctrine of ‘Rebirth’—Chapter 12, verse 13 of the Book of Daniel is to be understood as meaning, on the contrary, that a person will be ‘reborn’ who was the prophet Daniel in a previous life.
But, is it possible for a person ever to prove that he has received a memory of having been the prophet Daniel in a previous life?
Or, on the other hand, is it possible for another person ever to prove that he has received a Revelation that the first person had been the prophet Daniel (or, for that matter, the prophet Elijah—cf. Chapter 11, verses 14-15 of the Gospel of Matthew) in a previous life?
Of course not.
All such Revelations are ‘merely’ personal Revelations; as are the Vision of the “Son of man” and the Revelation of “the resurrection” (upon which the Torah is based) themselves.
(And it is for this reason that, mostly, the Christian religious officials and their followers studiously avoid any serious consideration of the Prophecies in the 13th—as well as the 1st—verses of Chapter 12 of the Book of Daniel; focusing, instead, on the large-scale fulfillment of Prophecies concerning the actions of a purported ‘anti-Christ’ and certain military conflicts.)
Thus, if a person claims to have received the Vision of the “Son of man”, the Revelation of “the resurrection”, and Visions and Prophecies of the coming “time of trouble”—or, for that matter, claims to have ‘Unsealed’ the Seven Seals of the Revelation of John—such assertions can never be proven to be the Truth, but can only be demonstrated as being the Truth on the basis of the Knowledge that has been conveyed through such Revelations and Prophecies…
The accessibility to all such Knowledge, however, depending upon whether people choose to believe that he is telling the Truth.
In other words, the statement that “My people perish for lack of Knowledge” is, ultimately, to be understood as meaning that “My people perish…for refusing to believe the Truth when it was conveyed to them.”
Michael