The Holy Grail is the mythological Roman Catholic concept of the chalice that Jesus Christ drank out of at the Last Supper. It's where books like The Da Vinci Code have their basis, in fact.
The Merovingian dynasty from the Dark Ages in France was said to be made up of the first French kings. The claim is Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married and had a daughter who was carried away to France and became the progenitor of these first kings.
“Now understand why the French needed that tale,” explains Jordan. “The throne of England is said to be the throne of ‘British Israelism’—the throne of David. The Blarney Stone in Ireland that you kiss is, in British mythology, said to be the stone Jacob slept on in Genesis 28 when he slept under the stars and had the vision of Jacob’s ladder.
“They use an obscure little verse in Jeremiah, from when the Babylonian captivity took place, about how Jeremiah took some of Zedekiah’s daughters and hid them, and the idea is they wind up in the British Isles and become the progenitors of the British throne.
“I’ve seen charts that would fill a wall where they trace the throne of England all the way back to King David. Well, if you’re French you’re not going to let the English get ahead of you, are you?
"The French couldn’t be outdone by the Brits, and if they’ve got David for the king, then you need somebody important and who’s more important than Jesus, the true Son of David?
"So they got this heresy, and it’s just mythology. It’s screwy stuff but this is a historical thing, and by the way, in the new emerging Europe of today, this idea has re-emerged. This stuff kind of works behind the scenes.”
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In a Q&A interview once, Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown revealed, “Many historians now believe (as do I) that in gauging the historical accuracy of a given concept, we should first ask ourselves a far deeper question: How historically accurate is history itself.”
General skepticism about previously authoritative history is nothing new. Jordan emphasizes the sad reality of how our government-run education system, in the last 65 years, “has been co-opted and has moved away from the didactic fact-based system of thought, based in logic and absolute truth, to a dialectic, feeling-based system that’s based in change and uncertainty.”
“The only absolute truth anyone is allowed to hold is that there is no absolute truth. You get multi-culturalism that way; egalitarianism. What that means is everybody’s ideas and systems are as good as anybody else’s. They re-write history.
"The U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence are no longer great liberating documents even though they have only the British Magna Carta as peers in the last 2,000 years as embodiments of freedom and liberty and the thinking that produces that.”
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America's government-controlled education system began to be subverted at the turn of the 20th Century when John Dewey “had the genius of wanting to do away with the Christian foundation of our culture, and substitute it with a dialectal materialism, known as Marxism.
“And he understood that the way to do it was not to go out and have an assault and egg the President. He understood that what you had to do was take a long-range view.
"Sociologically, it takes four generations to change a culture into something or away from something, and he understood that in order to do that you needed to educate the teachers who teach the teachers who teach the teachers. Don’t teach the teachers or the students, teach the teachers that teach…Go capture the universities who teach and now you’ve got a download system.
"The result is kids in high school today are taught that the very institutions our country is founded upon were put in place by 'just a bunch of rich white men who wrote those institutions just to perpetuate their monopoly. Just a bunch of old, selfish, rich white guys that did that.' Kids aren’t given the concepts and the ideas our culture was founded on.”
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Here’s an outtake from a sermon Jordan gave:
You can’t even go to the culture today and say marriage is “one man, one woman for a lifetime.” Families can’t be identified as “mom and dad.” You say, “Where did that come from?” It came from taking away the foundation upon which those kinds of understandings are based, and replacing it with a dialectic sort of reasoning that’s based on feeling and no absolute truth.
That's the governing philosophy of the educational institution of our country and that makes a difference. There’s no absolute truth. It’s just whatever’s right for you.
Now when you do that, you do what Israel did: “Every man does that which is right in his own eyes.” (Judges 17:6)
So when you get that kind of widespread skepticism about everything, where, “We don’t know what to believe because there's no absolute truth,” you naturally get chaos.
In a Christian culture, people are going to be self-governed and self-restrained, for the most part, because they know God’s looking. They know there’s a right and a wrong and that “it’s appointed unto a man once to die but after that the judgment.” (Heb. 9:27)
You know there’s an accounting. There’s some absolute truth. There’s a God and there’s accountability. There’s justice.
But when every man does that which is right in his own eyes, what kind of eyes do people have? Your heart is desperately wicked. You’re going to wind up in sin and you know what sin does? “Righteousness exalts a nation and sin is a reproach to any people.” (Proverbs 14:34)
Sin produces corruption and things fall apart. That’s called chaos and when you get chaos in a culture, that can only go so far.
When you don’t have character in people to restrain the chaos, somebody’s going to restrain it. The problems aren’t going to be resolved without truth being spoken to people, and what little presence there is for the church the Body of Christ, it’s invaded by a fake "Praise Jesus, Hallelujah! " kind of thing that isn’t based on the Scripture and doesn’t have any answers for these kinds of problems and can’t contend with them intellectually.
That’s why the church today is totally irrelevant in solving things. So where do people go for answers? They go to themselves. Human viewpoint. Where does that get them? More chaos, and when you’ve got to get rid of chaos, there’s always somebody going to come in with a gun and a government, and people will say, “I’ll take it because I can’t live with the chaos." That’s where tyranny comes from.
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