The War Behind the Da Vinci Code – Part 4

Ó 2008 By Kirby Robinson

This blog has become the most complicated writing that I have done to date. The material is not difficult; it is there for the world to see. What has been so cumbersome for the past three weeks is that my life has been beyond the point of hectic. Every time I sit down to put the information into shape a haunting of some kind reaches a crisis. Or getting called into an exorcism that was botched by an amateur and in turn becomes the most physically and spiritually draining I have ever dealt with. But I refuse to give up, so here we go!

The final three things I would like to look at is:
1. Mary Magdalene
2. Did Jesus really die on the cross?
3. Who stands to profit from the Da Vinci Code wars?

Mary Magdalene’s life and relationship with Christ has become a lightning rod for every wild conspiracy thinker out there. Some say that Mary knew Jesus as a child. They fell in love at first sight. She ended up living with Mary and Joseph, and learned secret teachings from Christ. When He departed for his long lost excursions into the Far East, she waited for His return. She departed with Jesus when he started his ministries, and was even baptized with Jesus by John the Baptist. She was above all other disciples, married Christ, in the final days went to Jerusalem with Him, while there hatched a wild plot of smoke and mirrors with Christ and Judas as well as a cast of hundreds to fake His death on the cross, to fake an empty tomb. Then they moved to France, she even has time to produce a child. When they get to France they don’t settle down, but turn around and begin to travel around the world. The pair teaches everyplace they go. She picks up many craft hobbies, and they return to France to live out their old age.

The difficulty with this wild scenario is that there is no proof of this at all. If you attempt to read the book, Holy Blood, Holy Grail, and try to follow the logic of the authors, they suggest that paintings, architecture of certain monasteries and churches, mosaics and stained glass windows, and elaborate statues found throughout the South of France hold some secret code and are protected by some secret organization. For what they must do is destroy the two roles that Mary played in the Ministry of Christ, destroy the believer’s faith in Christ’s death and resurrection, and get you to buy into the elaborate plotline, because they kind of follow the same conspiracy thinking of writer/producer/director Oliver Stone, which is: if there’s no clue of a conspiracy, then that proves a conspiracy exists.

Mary first shows up in Luke’s Gospel chapter 8, verses 2-3: “And there were some women who had been healed from evil spirits and ailments—Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, and Joanna, Khuza’s wife (Herod’s commissioner), and Susanna, and many others who provided for them from their belongings.”

There are seven demons cast out of Mary, the number seven is representative of the Seven Deadly Sins (Lust, Greed, Wrath, Envy, Gluttony, Sloth, and Pride), to suffer the bondage of just one is severe enough, what untold emotional, physical, and spiritual damage that the seven is a burden that few could endure. And if they did, it would leave a mark on their spiritual life and it would put them in debt to not only the person but also the power that defeated the demons. The exorcism of Mary and the other women may have taken up to one year. Remember, the Christ of the living is not the same Christ who rose up to heaven after 72 hours in hell.

There is also Mary who knows the suffering that awaits Christ in hell as she had been there and would know from firsthand spiritual experience what would await him there as well she would know that Christ’s death would alter the law that governs spiritual men.

In Matthew 12 verses 43-45 we see this: “He was in Bethany in the home of Simon the scabby (not really a “leper,” as is in the traditional translation), recumbent, and there came a woman who had an alabaster genuine, expensive nard ointment. Smashing the alabaster, she poured over his head. But there were some angry among themselves. Why has this waste of the ointment happened? Because this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor! And they were upbraiding her. But Jesus said, Leave her: why are you making problems for her? she has done a fine deed with me. Because you always have the poor with yourselves, and whenever you want, you can do them good, but me you do not always have. She acted with what she had; she undertook to oil my body for burial. Amen I say to you, wherever the message is proclaimed in the whole world, what she did will also be spoken of in memory of her.”

This act of love that Mary gives to Christ is symbolic of a way a spiritual student should pay their respect to their spiritual liberator and teacher and is not an act of love that flows from a woman to a man on a romantic level.

Much is made by the Da Vinci Code folks that Jesus Christ was essentially a Rabbi, and according to the law He had to be married. But what they don’t tell you is if Jesus was a married Rabbi, He could not travel and preach He would have been expected under the law to settle down and have a home with the family of his wife. Christ stated clearly and repeatedly that He had no earthly home.

Also many attempt to point out that Mary Magdalene was the woman that Christ kept from being stoned to death for being an adulteress. This is not Biblically based but one of tradition and dogma.

Mary’s role in the death, resurrection, and transfiguration of Christ can’t be tossed aside as well. For all the other followers and Disciples of Christ abandoned, denied or betrayed Him. Mary was the one constant in the fact that she stands at the foot of the cross witnessing the opening rounds of the battle between the forces of hell and Jesus the man. It is Mary who went to the tomb and it is Mary who first sees the newly risen Christ.

Now let me stop here and point out an error. Some say that if Christ had risen, His body would bear no marks from the crucifixion, and His appearance would be exactly like as to what it was when He was living. It would be a ghost and ghosts have perfect bodies. The people who say this have never actually seen a ghost. Ghosts do not have perfect bodies and if a person suffers a physical injury or deformity prior to death it’s carried on to the spiritual side. And a person’s spirit is not always what it looks like when they’re living. Your mindset can cause either an improvement within your appearance or degradation within your appearance.

Thus we see Mary played an essential and important role in the ministry of the Christ. He freed her from demonic possession; she became a devout follower and student who truly loved both the message and the messenger. Was Christ married to Mary? Who knows? Did they have a child? It doesn’t change the message. Did they flee to France? Absolutely not.

2. Did Christ die on the cross? Let’s focus on two key points.

1. None of the 12 disciples or any of the other followers of Christ ever abandoned the message, not even at the point of death. They did not deny the risen Christ, nor did any ever tell of the “conspiracy story” to anyone. They all had taken it to the grave with them if this conspiracy story is to be believed and that’s a definite stretch of logic and human nature.
2. This spiritual point the fact that Christ died on the cross can be found in churches and homes around the world, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. People go and pray and have their prayers fulfilled, hear the voice of Christ, and see His risen body. A mere man cannot be ever present, nor could a man who died of natural causes be able to fulfill the prayer requests and healings.

3. So we come to the final stop of our journey. Who stands to profit from the Da Vinci Code wars?

1. Those who wish to become the new evangelists. There’s money and power preaching and teaching the word of God. The conservative, radical Christian right has made a joke of Christ’s message out of being a televangelist. So many have figured out how to become “New Age Christians” we can’t cash in on the Bible thumping, so we will cash in on thumping the Bible.
2. L. Ron Hubbard said it best, “You want to be remembered, start a religion.” There are people out there revising the voice of God and Christ every day so they can tell you what is true and how you must abandon the old.
3. There are those who seek to turn all spiritual paths into a one-world religion.
4. Finally, for the Anti-Christ to make his/her appearance: A. You must first have an Anti-God. B. You must change the message of Christ into an Anti-Christ message. C. You must have the faithful abandon the old Christ and embrace a “new” Anti-Christ, one who is not of God, but of man. D. You must convince the world that all the churches that preach the Lord’s message are trying to deceive you with a false message and are keeping information from you, that they cannot be trusted and in turn, you must embrace secret Gnostic teachings. This new Gnostic church is the only one for you to follow.

There you have my views and feelings on this subject. Accept them, or reject them, as you wish. Study for yourself, enter into prayer, ask for guidance, the path will lead you not to the Da Vinci Code but to the glory of the truth of both the message and the messenger, the Mother that bore Him, and the God who was His Father.