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on the object they worship; they adore the crucifix and the
Almighty as if they were kissing the bloody dagger of the
assassin of their brother in the presence of his father!

    I do not think there is even one Christian in ten millions
who really has a precise idea or a definite knowledge about
the origin and the true signification of the term “the Son
of Man.” All Churches and their commentators without
exception will tell you that “the Son of God” assumed the
appellation of “the Son of Man” or “the Barnasha” out of
humility and meekness, never knowing that the Jewish
Apocalyptical Scriptures, in which Jesus (pbuh) and his
disciples heart and soul believed, foretold not a “Son of
Man” who would be meek, humble, having nowhere to lay
his head, and be delivered into the hands of the evildoers
and killed, but a strong man with tremendous power and
strength to destroy and disperse the birds of prey and the
ferocious beasts that were tearing and devouring his sheep
and lambs! The Jews who heard Jesus (pbuh) speaking of
“the Son of Man” understood to whom he was alluding.
Jesus (pbuh) did not invent the mane “Barnasha,’ but
borrowed it from the Apocalyptical Jewish Scriptures: the
Book of Enoch, the Sibylline Books, the Assumption of
Moses (pbuh) , the Book of Daniel, etc. Let us examine the
origin of this title “the Barnasha” or “the Son of Man.”

    1. “The Son of Man” is the Last Prophet, who
established “the Kingdom of Peace” and saved the
people of God from servitude and persecutions under
the idolatrous powers of Satan. The title “Barnasha”
is a symbolical expression to distinguish the Saviour
from the people of God who are represented as the
“sheep,” and the other idolatrous nations of the earth
under various species of the birds of prey, ferocious
beasts, and unclean animals. The Prophet Hezekiel is
usually addressed by God as “Bin Adam (pbuh) ,” that
is, “the Son of Man” (or of Adam (pbuh) in the sense of
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