The Roman Empire
The Roman Empire began around the 10 th century BC (before Christ) and until the 5 th century AD (after the death of Christ.
The Roman emperors or leaders were people that believed in the gods of the Greeks beginning as a civilization of Monarchy (being ruled and governed by elected leaders), it then turned into an oligarchy ( the word oligarchy originates from Greek, meaning: a government that is led by a leader of various qualities, power, influence, royalty, wisdom, intellectual, spiritual and also religious in his point of views,
these leaders also contained a nature of tyranny in their characteristics, they were into ungodly rituals of human sacrifice, immorality or sexual immorality, killing, willing to do whatever it takes so that they may maintain the position of their leadership).
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The fore runner of the kings that later on ruled over Israel as Herods |
Emperor in Rome, Nero killed his step father, mother, wife, and unborn child to keep his power |
The first Roman emperor was called Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus who ruled from 23 September year 63 BC until 19 th of August AD year 14.
During the time of Jesus Christ's birth and ministry in Israel, it was this same emperor that was ruling in Rome and at the same time the Israelites (Jewish nation, God's people) were also paying tribute to his system which had Herod as the client king over Israel.
Client kings were kings chosen by an empire so that they may rule over the nation or nations that they have conquered or defeated, and it was Herod that was chosen by Rome to rule over Israel.
Through a hard life of the Roman bondage (exacting of tax, decreeing of immoral laws of sexual immorality and also forcing the Jews to live by them through cruel leadership) in Israel which was coming from the Roman Empire,
Jesus Christ appeared up on the scene preaching the gospel of repentance and redemption to |
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These were the same kind of coins that were used in Israel with the inscription of Emperor Ceasar's image on it, Mark 12:14-17 |
Israel (the message was strongly emphasizing on the topic of repentance because some of the main key leaders of Israel at this time were connected to the Roman government and the gospel they were preaching was favoring the Roman evil system as in John 11:48 ).
The Roman emperors were leaders that used to sacrifice to foreign gods (god Zeus, god cupid, sun god, etc) human sacrifice was always done and special demonic worship were also held whenever a leader felt threatened or in fear of losing his position of leadership to another.
When king Herod over the nation of Israel heard that a new born child in Bethlehem was born, and that it has been prophesied that he will become the king of the Jews (Israel), he immediately carried out an attack against Israel, these orders were carried out by the man called Herod, and Jewish young boys from the age of two and under were killed by the Roman soldiers in Bethlehem as in Matthew 2:16.
The gods of the Greeks, which became the gods of the Romans, originating from the evil system of Nimrod's structure called the Chaldeans or Babylon had a very strong influence on the Roman Empire and culture.
In the year 70 Ad (after the death of Christ) the Romans came to Israel and destroyed the temple in Jerusalem. you remember the temple that Jesus walked into and threw out all the people that were selling goods in the temple ( Matthew 21:12 ), that same temple was destroyed by the Romans in the year 70AD in the Hebrew month called Tammuz which fell in the month of August on the Gregorian calendar.
Emperor Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ruled over Rome and he began his leadership on the 13 October 54, following Claudius's death. Apostle Paul was beheaded in Rome during the reign of Nero; Early Christian tradition often holds Nero as the first persecutor of Christians and as the killer of Apostles Peter and Paul . There was also a belief among some early Christians that Nero was the Antichrist .
During the leadership of Constantine in Rome in the Year 325 AD, Rome became an Empire that diverted and misled the Christian belief from the roots of its source, life and savior.
The Roman Emperors believed in the concept of having many gods and the worship of many spirits and demonic rituals, and the only nation that was a threat to their system and faith was the Jewish nation that believed in only one God as in Acts 16:20-21.
By Apostle A Ngabo
