371 - The Dark Side of Christmas: The Massacre of the Innocent(s)
The Symbolic World21 Joulu 2024

371 - The Dark Side of Christmas: The Massacre of the Innocent(s)

In this episode, I explore a dark narrative aspect of the Christmas story: the Massacre of the Innocents at the hand of King Herod, connecting it to various Old Testament variations on the pattern: Joseph and the Pharaoh, Jacob and Esau, and David and King Saul. Christ brings all of these stories together in a unique and mind-blowing way, not just in the Gospels, but also in what happens in history afterwards…

Original YouTube version: https://youtu.be/cGZn-hv7dis
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00:00 - Introduction
01:42 - Intro music
02:07 - The text
03:39 - What's going on?
03:59 - Pharaoh kills children in Egypt
05:48 - Joseph son of Israel
07:11 - Jacob and Esau
09:22 - King Saul and David
10:31 - The story of Jesus
12:11 - A prophecy: killed by His brothers
13:43 - The conversion of Rome
14:47 - Going back in time
16:38 - Why is this part of reality?

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