THE HOLY SCRIPTURES

THE DOOM OF PROPHESY

In prophetic Christian and Jewish teachings Jerusalem plays an important role and so does Rome.

These powerful conquerors came to the Holy Land to rule and Christianity came to Rome to rule as well.

All roads lead to Rome, from there you catch a boat to Jerusalem. These roads may be thousands of miles long and walked by sunce ancient times. Close to where I live the “Japikspad” (St.Jakob-path) starts, leading all the way to Santiago de Compostella (Northern Spain) and Rome, of course.

From all over Northern-Europe, Germany and England these paths meandered down south, to meet in France. In the Middle Ages pilgrimage was booming business and popularised by the Roman Catholic Church, who got very rich with the donations of the spiritually troubled. Even though God forbids the use of idols and relics during rituals and religious ceremonies, like Allah does, churches, cathedrals and even monasteries are filled with wallpaintings, statues and tainted glass. Remnants of former saints are kept and shown to the public on a planned and regular basis. Two dead saints are on display in Rome, at this very moment.

What if you had a talking and moving Jesus-statue?

Pilgrims would travel from all over Europe to see it and, through a donation, make Jesus move.

When Henry VIII took over all catholic possessions, his engineers discovered, that the statue ws a mechanical construct. The King put it on display all over the country and paraded it through the streets of London.

The Rood of Grace was a crucifix kept at Boxley Abbey in Kent in southeast England. It was a mechanized likeness of Jesus, described by one Protestant iconoclast as an ingenious contraption of wires and rods that made the eyes move like a living thing,[1] and considered spiritually inspirational and a destination for pilgrimages by many of the faithful, including a young Henry VIII.[2] After the dissolution of the monasteries, the newly Protestant government used the Rood as an occasion to denounce the Roman Catholics.

According to tradition, the Rood was brought to Boxley Abbey on a stray horse. Considering that a miracle, the monks of the abbey took the crucifix. William Lambarde, in his 1570 book, Perambulation of Kent, describes how the Rood was created by an English carpenter taken prisoner by the French in order to ransom himself. According to various reports, the Rood was able to move, shed tears, foam at the mouth, turn and nod its head, and make various facial expressions.[3]

After the dissolution of the monasteries, the Rood was paraded around various market towns, including Maidstone, Kent. On 12 February 1538 John Hilsey, Bishop of Rochester, denounced the Rood of Grace as a fraud, exhibited its machinery and broke it to pieces.[4] The Rood was eventually burned in London along with numerous other statues of Roman Catholic saints.