Christ Conspiracy_ The Greatest Story Ever Sold - Acharya S [149]
He is the helper of Horus as the Solar God upon the horizon where the great battle is fought against the Apap of darkness ... This has been rendered in the Hebrew as "Joshua helping to fight the battle of the Lord." . . . Shu was chief of the sustaining powers of the firmament, who were known in one phase as the seven giants. He then became the elevator of the Heavens that was imaged as the Cow of Nut. Lastly, he was the sustaining power with Atum-Horus in the Double Equinox.47
In Canaan, Joshua was Baal Jehoshua, the "Lord of Salvation," but when his cult had been suppressed by the Levites/Yahwists, he was demoted to a Hebrew patriarch and hero of the northern kingdom. However, his worship was continued "underground" atop Mt. Carmel, site of a pre-Christian temple of the Lord Jesus, Baal Jeshouah.48
Indeed, the Joshua cult was situated in basically the same area where the Christ drama allegedly took place, with Joshua mutating into Jesus.49 In fact, the cult of the solar hero Joshua performed the sacred king drama at Gilgal, which in Greek is Galilee (Jos. 12:23), so "Jesus of Galilee" could read "Joshua of Gilgal," and vice versa. Like Jesus, Moses, Horus, Perseus and others, Joshua was a "fatherless hero born of 'waters' (Maria)."so
Furthermore, at 1 Corinthians 10:4 Paul claims that Christ "the Rock" followed the Hebrews at the time of their exodus out of Egypt, as did Joshua, according to the biblical myth. As Dujardin says, "The history of the ancient religion of Jesus goes back to the Stone Age and is prior to the settlement of the Canaanite tribes of Palestine."51 Robertson states:
The hypothesis that Joshua is the original Jesus-the origin of the myths which blended in a composite pattern mistaken for real history-solves many problems. . . . The association of Joshua with conceptions of Logos, Son of God, and Messiah is present in the Pentateuch.52
As noted, the association of Jesus with Joshua was admitted by early Christian fathers, particularly when they were trying to give scriptural authority to Jesus's alleged advent because the story was being challenged. In his 2nd Apology, Justin Martyr not only acknowledges but insists upon the Jesus-Joshua identification:
JOSHUA WAS A FIGURE OF CHRIST. . . . Jesus (Joshua), as I have now frequently remarked ... when he was sent to spy out the land of Canaan, was named by Moses Jesus (Joshua). Why he did this you neither ask, nor are at a loss about it, nor make strict inquiries. Therefore Christ has escaped your notice; and though you read, you understand not; and even now, though you hear that Jesus is our Christ, you consider not that the name was bestowed on Him not purposelessly nor by chance.... But since not only was his name altered, but he was also appointed successor to Moses, being the only one of his contemporaries who came out from Egypt, he led the surviving people into the Holy Land; and as he, not Moses, led the people into the Holy Land, and as he distributed it by lot to those who entered along with him, so also Jesus the Christ will turn again the dispersion of the people, and will distribute the good land to each one, though not in the same manner... For I have proved that it was Jesus who appeared to and conversed with Moses, and Abraham, and all the other patriarchs without exception, ministering to the will of the Father; who also, I say, came to be born man by the Virgin Mary and lives for ever.
Martyr also relates the passage in the book of Zechariah in which Joshua, like Jesus, contends with the devil, comparing it with the "mystery of Christ," thus again virtually equating the Canaanite baal/Hebrew "prophet" with the Christian savior.
David
The great King David, from whose lineage Jesus, the "King of the Jews,"