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After reading these pamphlets, Hong came to believe that they had given him the key to interpreting his visions: his celestial father was God the Father (whom he identified with Shangdi from Chinese tradition), the elder brother that he had seen was Jesus Christ, and he had been directed to rid the world of demon worship.
Oct 17, 2012 · By Carrie Gracie. BBC News, Shanghai. Chinese history can be read as a series of peasant rebellions. One in the 19th Century, led by a man who thought he was Christ's brother, lasted 15...
Jun 11, 2020 · The time Jesus’s younger brother led a revolution in China. Despite his unorthodox beliefs, Hong Xiuquan’s power was undeniable. The Taiping at its peak controlled almost a third of China’s heartland, and seemed poised to topple the Qing dynasty. James Carter Published June 11, 2020. Classical Chinese painting of the Taiping Rebellion.
Aug 17, 2022 · The Taiping Rebellion and Hong Xiuquan, Self-Proclaimed Younger Brother of Jesus. He led the bloodiest civil war in world history. By Lee D'Amato | Published Aug 17, 2022. The retaking of Nanjing by Qing troops. Photo Credit: Wikipedia.
Many people who were angry at the increasingly-weak Qing dynasty flocked to Hong’s banner. And as the son of God and younger brother of Christ, Hong decided that he had a mission. He had to drive out the foreign influences destroying China and create a heavenly kingdom on Earth.
Jan 1, 2001 · At the center of this history of China's Taiping rebellion (1845-64) stands Hong Xiuquan, a failed student of Confucian doctrine who ascends to heaven in a dream and meets his heavenly family: God, Mary, and his older brother, Jesus. He returns to earth charged to eradicate the "demon-devils," the alien Manchu rulers of China.
books, he became convinced that God the Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ were the two figures that had appeared in his dreams. Hong, for some strange reason, took himself to be the brother of Jesus; he also believed he was responsible for destroying all demons in the world.
