The "Fine Print"

(NECESSARY IN JESUS' ERA TO MAKE IT ESSENE THEOLOGY)   

      John 3:19 "And this is the CONDEMNATION, that LIGHT has come into the WORLD (initial meaning - God created LIGHT on the First Day (Genesis 1:3-5) -- John's meaning in John 3:19 -- OBVIOUS: Jesus has again "created LIGHT in John's era, 4000 years after the initial creation --NOT SO OBVIOUS: Jesus as HORUS now creates light as the SUN, having replaced the dead Osiris as the current major GOD of the Egyptian Trinity Osiris, Isis, and Horus.--- LESS OBVIOUS STILL: Given more time, and the opportunity to do so, the Author of Hewrews (not Paul but Appollos, another Essene Egyptian Theologian and later Christian Apologist) will make it appear that Christ, not Jehovah-Yahweh, created LIGHT in the beginning (In Genesis 1:3-5) closing a possible GAP in the comprehension of those Gentiles it was his assigned purpose to convert to the brand-new Christian Religion.-----

     John 3:19b "---and that men loved DARKNESS rather than LIGHT, because their DEEDS were EVIL"

    This puts what John is writing into a phraseology that is completely in accord with the Essene phraseology of the Essene "Community Rule" but NOT IN ACCORD with what Christianity would later find to be acceptable after the Council of Nicaea and many centuries later, with Christianity as liberalized still further by Martin Luther.

     John 3:20 "For every one that DOETH EVIL hateth the LIGHT, neither cometh to the LIGHT, lest his DEEDS should be reproved."

     John 321 "But he that DOETH TRUTH cometh to the LIGHT, that his DEEDS may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God."

    This continues a phraseology that is completely in accord with the Essene phraseology of the Essene "Community Rule" but NOT IN ACCORD with what Christianity would later find to be acceptable after the Council of Nicaea and many centuries later, with Christianity as liberalized still further by Martin Luther.

      It's also important to NOTE, time-wise, that this meeting of Nicodemus, "Bartholomew" (actually the Author of "John") and Jesus near Khirbet Mazin about 30 AD was long before Paul was converted and began the process of further improving the ideas and presentation for the purpose of converting more Gentiles to a new and improved Essene theology.

Ellen (Harmon) White's First Important Vision was based on John 3:18-21

      "Early Writings" page 14 "While I was praying at the family altar (Gorham, Maine, 1844), the Holy Ghost fell upon me, and I seemed to be rising higher and higher, far above the dark world.  I turned to look for the Advent people in the world, but could not find them, when a voice said to me. "Look again, and look a little higher."  At this I raised my eyes, and saw a straight and narrow path (the Essene "WAY"), cast up high above the world.  On this path the Advent people were traveling to the city (Qumran, the "New Jerusalem" of the Essenes), which was at the farther end (the southern end) of the path.

     They had a bright light (the light described in John 3:18-21) set up behind them at the beginning of the path, which an angel told me was the midnight cry.  This light (Essene "Good Works") shone all along the path and gave light for their feet so that they might not stumble.  If they kept their eyes fixed on Jesus (the Essene Messiah), who was just before them, leading them to the city (to Qumran) they were safe. 

    But soon some grew weary ("Good Works" are tiresome, and the list of what they shouldn't be doing was growing longer), and said the city ("Heaven" where they could rest) was a great way off, and they expected to have entered it before.  Then Jesus would encourage them by raising His glorious right arm (thought by Adventists to be "health reform" at the Battle Creek Sanitarium and other such places) ---

    --and from his arm came a (new) light (the "Holy Ghost" --Pentecost) which waved over the Advent band (the new interest in the "Second Coming" by the new Pentecostal movement), and the SHOUTED "Alleluia!"  Others (Waggoner, Jones, Ford, Brinsmeades) rashly denied the light ("Good Works") behind them (abandoned as a standard in 1888) and said it was not God that had led them out so far (from nominal Christian doctrines and practices).  The (Essene) light (of John 3:18-21) behind them (they left it in 1888) went out, leaving their feet in perfect darkness, and they stumbled and lost sight of the mark (of the beast) and of (the Essene) Jesus, and fell off the path down into the dark and wicked world below."

    This took a while, about another 40 years to complete -- the Adventists became Trinitarians, began to see Christ's sacrifice in 33 AD as all-sufficient -- completely bought into all the delusions of Paul's deceptive theology, and were ready to hear, as had other Christians before them, the BETTER OFFER that Christ offered Martha in 32 AD.