Comments on: Jacob? A Theory

By: Nacho (From Argentina)

Nacho (From Argentina) — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:17:12 +0000

My theory, is that Jacob is an arcangel named Azrrael. Is an arcangel from the muslim Coran. It is said, that god gave Azrrael the Job of guarding the entrance to hell, preventing the devil and demons escaping from hell, and the job of rescueing good souls that have been sentenced to hell unfairly. It was dificult rescueing good souls from hell, so he had to track them before they went to hell. So this can explain why Jacob touches every passanger of flight 815 before they die in the real world.

It is also said, that Azrrael, gave this souls the oportunity to proove that they shouldn’t go to hell. This can explain what are the “Candidates”. The candidates are the souls that Azrrael thinks that they are good souls and that they should be in heaven, but before they have to proove themself they are good.

Because they are in Azrrael kingdom, the devil cannot kill them, he can only persuade them to sin or to join him. This is what I think happened to Sayid and Claire, they are not anymore candidates, so there soul belongs to the devil, that’s why they are at his orders. Also the devil during the serie, takes various forms, to persuade souls, like for instance “Eko’s brother”, actually “John Locke”.

Also it is said that Azrrael had an Army of angels to find the good souls he wanted to rescue, and had a list, to write the names of these souls. This can explain who where “The Others” and who is “Richard”.

So my theory is that the island is the entrance to hell, the kingdom of Azrrael. All the passangers of flight 815 are dead souls between the real world, heaven and hell. The man in black or “black smoke”, or “the nemesis” is the devil. Finally Jacob is the angel of death Azrrael.

A little more, Azrrael has been named also as Izrael which in hebrew means “Jacob”.

There are theories that the cat in the cartoons “The Smurfs” has been named after this angel.

My theory is that Jacob represents the angel of death Azrrael which is mentioned in the muslim coran.

By: Logan

Logan — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:26:02 +0000

I think that Faraday is Jacob because he know everything about the island and he has time traveled to the island a long time ago. In the last episode they said that he was gone and I think he died and his spirit is now Jacob. I bet he is Jacob.

By: tip

tip — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:47:30 +0000

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By: rayy

rayy — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:41:18 +0000

I think Jacob is a disembodied soul–maybe an alien or an Atlantean. Though after seeing the Horace Goodspeed theory, I like that too.

I don’t think Jacob has absolute control over Ben, but Ben was using the group partly for his own aims.

By: click

click — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:26:57 +0000

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By: Izikavazo

Izikavazo — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:53:03 +0000

I think I know who Jacob is, I doubt it’s Richard. I think it’s Horace Goodspeed. Here’s why: http://ncjl.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/jacob-horace-goodspeed/

By: john

john — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:22:38 +0000

my theorie is that jacop ''was'' a man of great power and authority.''was'' a great man.ben is using locke.ben cannot communicate normally with jacop.but locke can.i believe that by some means benjamin linus has trapped jacop.ben wanted complete authority over the others and jacops cult so he trapped him and made up his own orders and commands.''help me'' said by jacop in the episode ''the brig''.he needs help to escape ben and stop him so he communicates with locke.ben can only see jacop.when the dharma initiative first arrived they tried to manipulate the islands properties.the island would only heal or cure the people who belonged on the island.the dharma tried to change this.that was the ''incident''.by manipulating the island they released the magentic energy and caused the infection.the button was created to stop this.ben usedsome method of ignoring jacop.jacop is the man who controls the properties of the island.he is in locke,he is in alpert he is in everything.he is the island.he can only be seen and heard by those who really want to and those who deserve it.jacop cured those who deserved to be of the cure.danielle deserved to bbe saved from the infection.and so were the losties.the infection had a strange affect on ben.it caused his tumor.at that point he did not believe in jacop because of the infertility caused by the infection.he then like the initiative tried to control the properties,jacop and the island itself.

By: jon

jon — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:57:22 +0000

Yeah…see the thing is…Jacob isnt manipulating Ben, Ben has harnessed Jacob somehow and keeps him there with some powder (perimeter, on chair). Jacob asked Locke for help…you dont ask for help if you’re a powerful force like that…you ask for someone to ‘join you’ or ‘do your bidding’ not “help” you.

as for richard, yeah, i think he’s behind a lot more than we think. ben has never really put him down.

By: katie

katie — Sun, 27 May 2007 02:38:25 +0000

“in the bible, he was the original bad twin. his name means deceiver and he was a con man who tricked his twin brother.”-i just read this from another viewer’s thoughts and oh my god this all makes sense. Jacob looks a lot like John Locke. The Bad Twin was a book that Hurley and Sawyer were reading. I think that in some weird magical island way, Jacob is John Locke’s twin.

By: Kevbot

Kevbot — Thu, 24 May 2007 17:30:24 +0000

Another theory on Jacob and the whole island:

It was Ben in the casket. Jack is willing to kill himself because he thought Ben was his best way to find out how to get back to the island and without the island his life becomes pointless. Jack has discovered since returning that the island is important in the overall salvation of mankind (creating a utopian society alluded to by all the philosopher names) and that Ben was acting to protect the island. We find out that to Ben, the ends justified the means: killing so many people was necessary to achieve the goals that the experiments and mysteries of the island will make possible. Ben and the people that Richard represents believed that the Dharma Initiative people were too idealistic about achieving the goals via peaceful means and that greater expediency was necessary to advance the potential of the island. Jack doesn’t agree with Ben’s means but believes that he (Jack) can be the one to help humanity by tapping into the island’s potential without sacrificing morality. Jack ultimately gets back to the island and it is ultimately revealed that the island is a conduit through which human survivors of some great apocalyptic event in the future are trying to influence past events. These future humans cannot travel back themselves but use their advanced technology (including smokey and messages through “Jacob”) to try to change history. Some people (Group X) in the present have discovered this and have been trying to exploit the island for profit or at least personal glory & power. Ben has worked with Group X to exploit them for their resources but has also kept them at bay because he better understands the island then they do. Because of Jack’s phonecall, they’re able to remove Ben as the middleman and in the time that they’ve removed Ben and the 815 survivors they have been working to exploit the island further. They have not been successful which is why they bring Jack and some of the other survivors back but Locke has been hiding out and he joins with the survivors and Penelope & Desmond (who were supporters of Dharma) to thwart the evil profiteers and bring about the changes that the future humans need to save humanity and build the utopian vision that the island was meant to fufill.

One other side theory: the plane was not supposed to crash. It was supposed to land safely on the island and many of the people on board were steered there by Group X. Many just happened to book tickets (Sawyer, Kate, Ana Lucia) while others were steered (Jack, Claire, Walt). But then Desmond flipped the switch . . .

Ok that’s it for me until next season. Can’t wait to see how wrong I am!