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The Time of Christ

Illustration for The Time of Christ
From the reign of Augustus to the reign of Tiberius

The last era in the archive is the one the Christian books were written to reach. The Cave of Treasures places the birth of Christ at Bethlehem in the forty-second year of Augustus, tells of the star and the Magi, the flight into Egypt and the death of Herod, and then moves to the baptism by John, the crucifixion on Golgotha over the grave of Adam, the burial by Joseph of Arimathea, the harrowing of Sheol and the resurrection.

The Ascension of Isaiah sees the same events from above, as the Beloved descends through the seven heavens, is born of Mary, is crucified, rises on the third day and ascends again. The Kebra Nagast and the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs look forward to this time through prophecy.

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Did You Know?

1

The Cave of Treasures dates the birth of Christ at Bethlehem to the forty-second year of the reign of Augustus.

2

The same book says the star appeared to the Magi two years before Christ was born.

3

An angel tells Joseph to take the Child and His mother into Egypt, and he returns to Galilee after Herod dies.

4

The Cave of Treasures says Christ was baptized by John at thirty and suffered in the twelfth year of Tiberius.

5

In the Ascension of Isaiah the Beloved rises on the third day and ascends again to the seventh heaven.