Caesar's Messiah: The Roman Conspiracy to Invent Jesus Page #3

legally, you had to submit to

the Emperor as a god as well.

You had to at least acknowledge that the

Roman leader was also a divine figure.

But the Jews would not have any of it.

It's fundamental to the Jewish belief

that you shall make no graven images.

It's one of the Commandments

given at the Sinai by God.

So, the Jews never made

representations of God.

The Jews had a very

different type of religion.

They had a religion which was

much more focused on the book

(?) and less focused upon cult in statues.

This presented a real

problem for the Romans.

They tried to install statues of Caesar

but the Jews werent't

gonna buy that at all.

In fact, it aggravated

them, it's enraged them

and the Romans really, I

think, didn't understand this.

It's not statues, it's books.

And those books contained what are known

as the Jewish Messianic Prophecies.

The thing that most moved the Jews revolt

against Rome was an obscure prophecy

from among their writings that a world

ruler would come out of Palestine.

Holy books inspired the Jews to expect

a redeemer, who would redeem Israel,

rescue Israel, restore Israel to

power and leadership in the world.

The Messiah that the literature

described was a warrior.

The Messiahs would have claimed

the same attributes that David did.

David could overcome any army because

God gave him the power to do it.

If you had the power of God, you

could easily defeat the Roman army.

The people rebeld against Rome and were

led by a messianic movement that had

a series of Messiahs that had come

forward to fight against the Roman Empire.

The Hebrew word Messiah is translated

into Greek as Kristos or Christ.

MESSIAH = KRISTOS

So, the title of Christ can describe any

of the numerous Messiahs of this movement.

Yes, the word Christ or Christians can

refer to the Palestine messianic movement.

But it's a later term,

it's a later reformulation

of the messianic movement in Palestine.

This movement rebels against

Rome in 66 and it's successful.

It actually defeats them militarily.

So, it must have been a huge movement.

The victorious Jews set up a nation-state

directly in the Roman Empire.

And the Romans had to

do something about it.

There was a real danger that this

messianic movement could not only

boil over in Judea itself, but could

spread to other Jewish communities

and other parts of the Roman Empire.

Rome ruled its colonies

with a rod of iron.

And any resistance was going

to be met with brute force.

At this time during Nero's reign, two

of the finest military men in the Empire

were the Flavians

Vespasian and his son Titus.

Vespasian and Titus were military men.

They spent a great deal of

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