The incipit of the Earliest Gospel:
In the 15th year of Tiberius, God descended into Capernaum, [a city of Galilee]
"A city of Galilee" was a later interpolation, Capernaum being the netherworld.
Capernaum = place of desolation, netherworld (so Heracleon).
Or, if the name was derived from Josephus, the name of the spring of fertilizing water, in a place otherwise
arid. So there is no real antithesis between the idea of consolation ("Nahum") and the idea of desolation.
In Mark, the
"wilderness" replaces
"Capernaum" as place of desolation.
In the Earliest Gospel, Jesus descended in the netherworld to be
crucified by demons.
In Mark, Jesus descended into wilderness (=Capernaum = netherworld) to be
"tempted" by demons.
In the Earliest Gospel, as per
Ascension of Isaiah (original version), Jesus assumes the form of a archon of the planetary level crossed by him.
In Mark, the spirit of Christ descends on a guy (Jesus) baptized by John the Baptist, but really in the Earliest Gospel the spirit of Christ descended on John the Baptist.
John the Baptist was the earthly version of an celestial archon. He was the material body worn by Christ to hide himself in the eyes of human archons (just as Christ hide himself behind an archontic body during the descent into lower heavens, etc). But why was John an earthly archon? Because he was a seditionist: not more innocent than his killers, in term of
archontic nature.
But Jesus was not crucified in the form of John. The body of John was the temporary recipient of the spiritual Christ only for the time necessary to cross the earth. Jesus had to descend into Hades to be crucified there.
Final destination: Hades (= Capernaum = wilderness = netherworld).
This is the reason why Jesus (really: the Christ) goes
"to the wilderness" immediately after that Jesus (really: John the Baptist) was possessed by the spiritual Christ).
While Jesus is crucified by the demons in the Hades (=temptations in the wilderness), John the Baptist is killed by Herod on the earth. Jesus comes out of Hades, he rises, and he mets the disciples of John the Baptist. They think (wrongly) that Jesus is John
redivivus. But they are idiots.
The brothers of John (the
Kyrios), are James and Simon (Peter). their names were derived from Josephus, standing for the sons of Judas the Galilean. So the euhemerizers wanted to emphasize the archontic (=seditious) nature of the disciples of the man who was for a short time the human recipient of the spiritual Christ. Hence it is explained why one of the 12 is called "Kananite" or "Simon the Zealot".
To excommunicate this Jesus Son of Father, he was named by the Judaizers as "Jesus Bar Rabban", meaning: "Jesus son of the higher teacher". "Rabban" was the title of Hillel, for example. The higher teacher is, obviously, the higher god, the marcionite Father.
The archontic (zealot) nature of the human recipient of the marcionite Christ is still evident behind the fact that Barabbas is a murderer and a criminal, a dangerous seditionist.
The great error of the historicists à la Brandon is to believe that Christ existed and was a Zealot. At contrary, Christ was a mythological being and his mere human appearance (not really himself, not really the his divine nature) was that of a Zealot, since in the
Ascension of Isaiah,
the Son had to take the form of criminal archontic entities.