What Happened to Moses?
- Richard Kretz
- Jun 20, 2023
- 3 min read
Moses is important if we are to understand the Templar’s modus operandi and who Hugues de Payens was. Moses was the first high priest-king of the Israelites. He was one of the greatest biblical patriarchs and leaders, but he wasn’t liked or well accepted. Why? From the Israelite perspective he wasn’t one of them. Sure, he had the birthright of a Levite, but he had been raised from birth in Pharoah’s household as an Egyptian prince. Moses didn’t even know he was an Israelite until just prior to being cast out of Egypt. He didn’t know his heritage, experience the sufferings of his people, or worship the One God of Abraham until later. In addition, Moses was considered a harsh leader who had a bad temper, threatened, and meted out death as punishment. Yet, Moses was chosen and appointed by God to lead the Israelites out of bondage. It wasn’t a popularity contest, and the people were obliged to begrudgingly obey him. To the enslaved Israelites, Moses was an Egyptian regardless of his blood and birthright, and his wife and sons were foreigners.
Compounding matters, Moses married Zipporah, a foreigner, the daughter of a Cushite sheik descended from Abraham’s second wife, Keturah’s, son Midian. Oy vey! Why not marry a nice Jewish girl, they wondered? And he brings her to meet the Israelites expecting they are going to embrace her? So, Moses and Zipporah have two sons, Gershom and Eliezer, who have been raised as Cushites in a foreign land. How well do you think that Moses’s sons were accepted as future leaders among the Israelites? Traditionally children are assigned to the tribe of the father, the tribe of Levi in this case. However, a child is assigned the religion of the mother. In this case Zipporah was a Cushite, an Arab, not an Israelite, but she did worship the One God of Abraham. What this means is that while Gershom and Eleazer inherited the divine right to rule and govern the Israelites as high priest-kings, they and their descendants would forever be perceived as foreigners, not liked, and have difficulties.
How do we know that Moses and his family were not liked? One of the most important events in a biblical patriarch’s life is his death and burial. The death and burial of a biblical patriarch is usually described, and traditionally he is buried by his sons. So, why isn’t Moses’s death and burial discussed in detail in the Bible? Why is it he just wanders out on Mount Nebo like some old dog to die? Why wasn’t he accompanied and attended to by his sons, Gershom and Eleazer, Joshua as head of the military, and his nephew Eleazer, Aaron’s son, the high priest? Why isn’t the exact location of Moses’ burial known?
The line of Moses and descent of High Priest-Kings was suppressed, censored, and removed from the Bible after Moses’s death when Deuteronomy was written. Even so, his descendants continued to play an important, albeit unsung, role that is clearly suppressed in the Bible. Moses’s youngest son, Eleazer, and his descendants were responsible for safeguarding the treasury of magical items. Gershom’s descendants continued as high priest-kings, having both temporal and spiritual authority to rule and govern Israel beyond the reign of Solomon and the Hasmonaean dynasty as evidenced with John the Baptist, Jesus, and John the Evangelist. This line continued after John the Evangelist when the Johannite Church was formed as an apostolic line of descent that percolated down through Babylonian exilarches at least until the founding of the Templars. Hughes de Payens, a direct descendant of Moses and THE Exilarch, was consecrated by Theoclete as Patriarch of the Johannite Church and was 70th in the apostolic line of descent from John the Evangelist.
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