John 5:43

“I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.”

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Nero's wife Poppaea Sabina was "a religious woman" who procured favour for the Jews (Josephus, Antiquities 20.159). She was buried according to Jewish custom as she wished (Tacitus, Annals 16.6, Histories 1.22) indicating that she was either a Jew, a Jewish proselyte or a "God-fearer" (Gentile supporter of Hellenistic Judaism). Nero himself showed favour to the Jews expanding the borders of the kingdom of Herod Agrippa II (Josephus, Antiquities 20.159, Wars 2.252) and bestowing Armenia Minor upon Aristobulus, son of the Jewish king of Chalcis (Antiquities 20.158). Nero is esteemed in the Talmud as an honoured convert to Judaism and the ancestor of the famous Rabbi Meir Baal Haness (Jewish Quarterly Review, vol. 59 no. 4 [Apr. 1969], The Emperor Nero in Talmudic Legend, University of Pennsylvania Press p. 321). It is no coincidence that Nero persecuted Christianity so harshly.

THE HISTORIC EXAMPLE OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (NERO IS A TYPE OF THE FUTURE ANTICHRIST)

Why is the Roman Empire so important today?

Many have pondered the fall of Rome and how it bodes for our wondrous country. -- A wonderful question that has never been fully answered -- until now.

First off, the reason we worry about the fall of Rome is dishonestly portrayed.

We do not care about the fall of a pagan Rome, any more than we care for the fall of a pagan Babylon.

Christians do not defend and do not mourn for the fall of a Roman-Pagan people who had tried to conquer every neighbor they ever had.

Americans do not relate to empire and abhor it.

In fact, American Christians are the exact opposite of the Pagan-Roman society so often depicted in the Hollywood movies of the militant Caesars, the sexual debaucheries of Caligula and Cleopatra, the sadistic debauchery of Nero and Commodus, the political intrigues of Brutus, the enslavement and brutal defeat of the Spartacus slave revolt, the total destruction of Carthage, and of course, the persecutions of Christians.

The part that interests many is how Rome, established as a Republic, was transformed into the base Roman society Christians are repulsed by.

This first question will be answered by this article.

But there is a second side to the Roman Empire.

While the decline of Rome did begin while the Roman-pagans were still firmly in control, the actual fall of Rome happened after Christians had inherited the reigns of power.

So the story of the decline and fall of Rome is not just the story of the "decline" of a Roman-Pagan people, but it is also the story of the "fall" of a converted people who had found salvation in Christ.

This question will also be answered here.

The fall of Rome was the fall of a Christian Rome and that is why it should be of interest to us today.

First Analysis: Edward Gibbons was dead wrong

Since Christians had control (or appeared to have control) as Rome went off the cliff, Edward Gibbons, in his definitive 1776 book on the subject, "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", places partial blame for Rome's fall on the Christians themselves.

He said that Christians just did not have the same warrior spirit of the infamous Roman legionnaire and believed that their "Kingdom" was not Rome, but Heaven, so they did not adequately defend Rome.

First off, if the fall of Rome was needed to rid the world completely of warrior spirit Roman-pagans, then Christians should be thanked not blamed.

Second, the invading barbarians were largely Christian themselves, having been previously converted by Christian missionaries. It was pagan Vikings and Huns which came after Rome fell.

Third, Christianity lived on in the "more Christian" Eastern half of the Roman Empire for another thousand years, proving that devout Christians will indeed defend Christianity.

Fourth and MOST IMPORTANT, Gibbons fails to give any weight to the bad influence of Judaism on the Roman Empire -- The subject of this history.

In fact, Gibbons is flat out wrong in his entire analysis.

This author's take on the cause of this disaster have the NT Jews initiating "The Decline of Rome" during the Roman-pagan stage and subsequently, have the NT Jews agitating Rome's enemies to affect "The Fall of Rome" during the Roman-Christian stage.

After these two time-line sections, we will finally discuss "The Causes of the Decline and Fall".

We will start our discussion of the Decline of Rome with a time-line.

 

Rome is born

With the overthrow of the monarch Tarquin the Proud, having been so abusive of his powers, the Senate refused to elect a new king to replace him.

Thus, Rome started off as America did, by deciding that Kings always become too powerful over the rights of citizens and wanting no more of it.

Like America, Rome no longer trusted centralized power. Theirs would be a decentralized government fashioned on the decentralized Greek city-state model of government, where Rome (the federal government) did little more than keep the peace among city-states. In early America, before the 17th Amendment of 1913, the federal government was also decentralized, with the States retaining most of the power to rule their respective State.

Thus, the Roman Republic was established in 509 BC.

Rome then built itself up over an expansive period of 500 years, as a stable Republic with a representative Senate in full control.

It even absorbed the previously ascendant Greek civilization by 146 BC.

Pompey had become the darling of the masses

In his consulship (70 BC), Pompey openly broke with the aristocracy and became the great popular hero. By 69 BC, Pompey was the darling of the Roman masses.

That would all soon change.

Pompey conquers the Israelites

In 63 BC, when Roman Consul Pompey, who Plutarch would portray as "the Roman Alexander the Great", made the fatal decision to enter and conquer semi-free Israel, thereby making Pompey and thus Rome, a blood-enemy of the Israelites.

The Pharisees, Sadducees and media-Scribes operating within and without the Roman Empire, immediately retaliated with smear campaigns that would turn Rome against Pompey, lead Rome to tyranny, and eventually, lead to its utter destruction.

Same as in America, the Jewish media-Scribes would convince ordinary Roman citizens that the Senate did not represent them, that Pompey was not really the hero of Rome they thought he was, and that they should have someone to champion "the people" instead of "the Roman nobility."

That "champion of the little guy", we would come to know as the military leader Julius Caesar.

In 49 BC, 15 years after Pompey conquered Israel, Caesar had "crossed the Rubicon" to the jubilation of "the people", in pursuit of Pompey as enemy of the state in a Roman Civil War.

Pompey escaped to Egypt where he was assassinated.

Caesar arrived shortly thereafter, but when presented with Pompey's head, he removed Ptolemy XIII and replaced him with Cleopatra.

Not that the Romans of the day felt the Earth shudder under their feet, but 15-years after Rome had conquered Israel, the Roman Republic of 500 years had become permanently altered.

Pompey, Consul, Protector of Rome, General of all Roman Armies, probably never knew who the real enemy was who had caused his demise.

The Rise of the Caesars

After Julius Caesar was assassinated in the Senate by Brutus, a descendant of the founder of Rome, the Republic was temporarily restored under the Senate.

But the underlying damage by the Jewish media-Scribes had already been done.

"The masses" wanted a leader who spoke for them. The Jewish media-Scribes had already convinced "the masses" that the Senate was corrupt beyond redemption.

They would get their uncorrupted leader -- for now. The Senate would become a figure-head to the real power of Caesar.

Octavian was the true heir to their leader, Caesar, and he was indeed a virtuous man; however, Nero and Caligula were just around the corner.

"The masses" had not come close to seeing true corruption and the beastly existence which the Jewish media-Scribes were leading them into. If they were to know, they would be praising the nearly-virtuous Senate they already had.

Octavian would take the title Augustus, defeat Anthony and Cleopatra in 31 BC, would assume almost absolute power, retaining only a pretense of the former Republican form of government.

Herodian Anthony, sidekick of Julius Caesar, fighting Herodian Octavian, in a modern-day Republican-Democratic fight for supremacy, while the true Republic stood by in horror.

The Senate would give appearances of functioning to most, but it had little real power now.

Rome, 30 years after taking Israel, now had a dictatorial Judeo-Emperor.

The Sadducees and Pharisees had succeeded in destroying the moral base of Rome.

But no Romans had noticed the responsible party causing the damage.

This destruction of the Greek city-state model, which the Romans had copied, would slowly, but eventually, lead to the centralized power of dictators and subsequent loss of support from the citizens within.

At first, the early emperors gave appearances and maintained that "res publica" still existed, albeit under their extraordinary emergency powers, and that they would eventually return the Republic to its full Republican form.

A line in the movie, "Gladiator", would have the good emperor Marcus Aurelius return Rome to a Republic, but power corrupts absolutely and Rome continued toward empire.

All in all, "first citizen" called "princes" would become the modern word "prince", while the title of the victorious Roman commander, "imperator" would become "emperor", while finally the word "Caesar" would become the German word "Kaiser" and the Russian word "C'zar" (Czar) or "T'zar" (Tsar).

Following Augustus Caesar (Octavian) was Rome's second Emperor, Tiberius, who ruled during the preaching and crucifixion of Jesus, under the Roman governor, Pontius Pilate.

Following Tiberius, in 37 AD, a dynasty was initiated with the insane Caligula and ended with the heartless Nero in 68 AD. The first NT Jewish revolt began during Nero's reign, in 66 AD; it would not conclude until 73 AD, by Vespasian after Nero's death.

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Emperor Nero converts to Judaism
First Emperor to persecute Christians
Second Temple Destroyed
-- 70 AD --

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Per the Talmud, Nero had officially converted to Judaism after visiting Jerusalem in 66 AD.

Not surprisingly, Nero would also be the first emperor to persecute Christians after the great fire of Rome in 64 AD, and would be responsible for killing the Apostles Peter and Paul.

Meanwhile, following the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple, the Sanhedrin would reconvene in Yavneh in 70 AD.

With Judea firmly back under Roman control though, and if you agree that Nero converted to Judaism Jew, then you have to agree that Judaism had a large influence or that Rome had place a big olive branch into the hands of the Jews to keep them in line, after regaining control. If you believe this then Rome might now be classified as a Judeo-Roman Empire. Certainly, it makes sense as Rome was entering an era under "The Five Good Emperors", beginning in 96 AD and finishing in 180 AD with the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelias of Gladiator fame. Judeo-Rome would be at its pinnacle of power, reaching its greatest extent with its renowned Pax Romana (Roman peace)

Jewish Kitos Revolt of 115-117 AD

Rome was on top of the world and in the middle of the reign of the Five Good Emperors. None knew that a long forgotten occurrence of destroying the Temple 45 years earlier, was never forgotten by the Jews now infesting their Roman bureaucracies.

During the empire-wide NT Jewish Kitos Revolt against Rome in 115-117 AD, Edward Gibbons was not just speaking of Christians:

"Humanity is shocked at the recital of the horrid cruelties which Jews committed in the cities of Egypt, of Cyprus, and of Cyrene, where they dwell in treacherous friendship with the unsuspecting natives and we are tempted to applaud the severe retaliation which was exercised by the arms of legions against a race of fanatics, whose dire and credulous superstition seemed to render them the implacable enemies not only of Roman government, but also of humankind."

--Edward Gibbon (Womersely ODNB pp11, 12)

Obviously, Gibbon wrote this long before one would be denounced and ran out of "respectable" centers of power as being anti-Semitic.

There is more in Gibbon's footnotes detailing the magnitude of NT Jewish destruction:

"In Cyrene, the Jews massacred 220,000 Greeks; in Cyprus, 240,000; in Egypt, a very great multitude.

-- footnotes of Edward Gibbons

No mention if the Jews were slaughtering Christians or Roman pagans.

Many of these unhappy victims were sawed asunder, according to a precedent to which David had given sanction of his examples.

The victorious Jews devoured the flesh, licked up the blood, and twisted the entrails like a girdle around their bodies.

--see Dion Cassius I, lxviii, p. 1145

Nice civilized guys, these Jews.

Jewish Bar Kokhba Revolt

Implacable enemy indeed, for yet another revolt was coming in the next generation of NT Jews, 25 years later.

The NT Jewish Revolt by leader Shimon Bar Kokhba of 132-135 AD was the last straw for Roman tolerance.

The Five Good Emperors, Trajan, already had to put down a second revolt of Judea with the Kitos War of 115-117 AD. A revolt every generation, 70 AD, 115 AD, and 132 AD, from already conquered peoples was not acceptable in Roman tradition.

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Rome gives Jerusalem the Carthage treatment
Second Diaspora Begins
-- 140 AD --

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In Roman tradition, the civilized world knew that when Carthage revolted a second time with Hannibal's Elephants descending menacingly on Rome, the Roman response would have Roman soldiers sewing Carthage grain fields with salt and having the city of Carthage taken apart until "one stone did not set upon another".

After the Bar Kokhba Revolt, Jerusalem would finally get the Carthage treatment itself from Rome.

Israel had been free for two and a half years under Bar Kokhba, but would pay dearly once the Romans regained control.

In Roman custom, Jerusalem was "plowed up with a yoke of oxen."

Jerusalem would be leveled, Judea was renamed Palaestinia, and the NT Jews would be dispersed in a two-thousand-year Diaspora.

Many were shipped all over the Roman world as slaves.

Some escaped to the Judeo-Persian Empire and would make their reappearance 500 years later.

Some escaped to Arabia, eventually establishing Islam in their ultimate revenge, but also 500 years into the future.

Millions of Jewish Hannibals unleashed within Rome

But per terms of the Diaspora, none was allowed to stay in Jerusalem, and the second Diaspora would become a disaster for Rome, for they had just brought Hannibal into their society. -- not their feared enemy, the Hannibal of Carthage -- but the terrorist Hannibal of Hollywood fame. -- the Hannibal Lecter who could devise all means of deceptions to instigate hideous evil upon others!

This Hannibal was far more menacing than the Hannibal of Carthage that they could see, attack and defend against, as this Hannibal was an undetectable menace spread throughout their mighty empire.

For now, the threat to Roman rule was unchallenged, while the battered NT Jews regrouped as an underground movement.

The next 40-years, from 140 AD to the end of The Five Good Emperors in 180 AD, the NT Jewish Hannibals, dispersed throughout the Roman Empire, taught themselves the Roman and Greek languages and the Roman customs as slaves.

And then, they taught their children Latin and Greek while becoming adjusted to the new Roman customs.

No longer would NT Jews revolt in pitched battle against Romans, for the battle cries of the Pharisees and the Sadducees would now be replaced by the meek and obedient Rabbinate System.

But the Pharisee and Sadducee Hannibals would forevermore operate by undercover deceptive cunning and by leveraging the might of others to fight their battles for them.

As will be repeated many times, once released upon society, it only takes two generations (around 40 years) for NT Jews to ascend into positions of power and influence in any society and then it only takes another two generations (another 40 years) to totally destroy that civilization.

In a word, Rome was unknowingly on its way to being completely transformed into a Judeo-Roman Empire.

Jewish traders become the middlemen

It can safely be said that the NT Jews quickly became the defacto middleman traders within the Roman Empire.

The Roman Empire was the most vast, far-reaching, empire in history, yet news still traveled throughout this empire literally by word of mouth on the back of a horse, donkey or camel.

And that word of mouth most likely would be the word of a NT Jew traveling peddler.

• all the local provinces of the Roman Empire
  
  
• the Western and Eastern half's of the Roman Empire
  
  
• the Germanic Barbarian regions and the civilized Roman areas
  
  
• the Persian world and the Roman world
  
  
• the Arabian world and the Roman world

Each one of these opposing groups were fertile grounds for the slow acid-drip of Jewish propaganda. The local provinces would do battle between rich and poor, while being lead by the media-Scribes into moral depravity. The Western and Eastern halves would split. The Germans would invade, after Rome was weakened enough. The Persians would succeed in taking Jerusalem for a while. And finally, the Arabs would bring Islam in to finally take Jerusalem.

The opportunities for such middlemen traveling traders and merchants to create havoc were immense. Upon entering German territory, while drinking beer with the locals, they could have told Germans untrue stories that Romans were scared stiff of them and were planning to exterminate them. Upon returning to Roman lands, they could have told the Romans the exact same thing. Next thing you know, there is a German-Roman war. -- or a Persian-Roman war, or a pagan-Christian war, or a Citizen-slave war, etc.

With this in mind, realize that the first generation of NT Jewish Diaspora, in 140 AD, was from enslaved parents of the 132 AD Bar Kokhba revolt.

First, their freedom had to be bought.

Then the second generation of the Second Diaspora, around 160 AD, had grown up among Roman citizens, learned Latin and Greek and most importantly, learned where the levers of power were in their travels as merchants and traders. Trading money is little different than trading grain and they soon gained prominence in financial circles. Men with financial clout soon obtained political clout.

Gladiator emperor Marcus Aurelias dies in 180 AD

So 40 years had now passed since the Second Diaspora in 140 AD, and strangely, what would soon become the prevailing attitude in Rome after the death of Marcus Aurelius?

• Roman citizens would lose the will to fight
• They would lose the will to defend Rome
• Citizens felt Rome was not worth defending anymore
• The economy would become a shambles with runaway inflation
• They would lose their own faith in Roman Mythology
• They would be talked into indulging in decadent lifestyles
• Then when things turned ugly, they were convinced to lash out at the Christians as being the source of all their problems and persecuted them horribly.

The Babylons would see their destruction starting 40-years after they had destroyed the first Jewish Temple. Now, the Roman would see their 40-year time-span expire following their destruction of the Second Jewish Temple.

Roman citizens would no longer volunteer to defend the empire, so Rome began subsidizing entire barbarian tribes, such as Attacotti, Franks, Vandals, Alans, and Visigoths -- in exchange for providing soldiers to fight in the Roman armies. The Roman subsidy was food and money, but later, due to declining tax revenues, they were subsidized by allowing them to be billeted on local large landowners. This became the same as allowing them to settle in Roman territory and local landowners' loyalties dwindled as a result.

Questions to ask yourself about the Decline of Rome

How did Roman citizens lose their identity as Roman citizens and lose their patriotism?

How did a 700-year-old, previously sound, economy become financially insolvent?

Who would talk Romans into subsidizing barbarians?

Once the middle class was squeezed past the breaking point to where they gave up engaging in taxable professions and little tax revenues was coming in, who convinced Romans to allow the barbarians to immigrate onto Roman territory?

The Answer!

After the death of Marcus Aurelias in 180 AD, 40 years after the Bar Kokhba Revolt was settled in 140 AD, Pax Romana would become history as the grandchildren of the Diaspora NT Jews, now with political, economic and media power, would insure that the Roman world would crumble from within; "the final solution" ensured!

 

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The Fall of Rome

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Christianity saves Rome

There was only one thing that saved Rome now -- The rise of Christianity.

So much for the historical analysis of Edward Gibbons!

The Pharisees and Sadducees had done their job well of totally destroying the faith and moral character of the Roman-pagans, but by the grace of God, the long-suffering Roman-pagans found salvation in Christ.

During those turbulent hundred-years after Marcus Aurelius in 180 AD, more and more Romans converted to Christianity.

Perhaps, we can only thank the Satanic Pharisees and Sadducees for the spread of Christianity.

Perhaps, we can think God's will that it be done.

This was obviously NOT in the game plan of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

God was spreading his grace and for the time being, the Jesus-deniers were again thwarted.

Constantine breaths life into the Roman Empire in 330 AD

On May 11, 330 AD, with Rome in decay, Constantine would made the virtuous rapidly Christianizing Bosporus port city of Byzantium the capital of the entire Roman Empire, later to be renamed, Constantinople.

Not stopping there, Constantine would grant religious tolerance toward Christianity for the first time and even converted to Christianity himself on his deathbed, just in time to name his Christian successor.

This would begin and establish a long-standing tradition of Christian Roman emperors.

Constantine was not without tolerance toward the NT Jews as well. He allowed the NT Jews to mourn their "defeat and humiliation" by the Roman-pagans once a year on Tisha B'Av at the Western Wall. Not much, but a start.

But on whole, the Christian Emperors never saw a need to overturn the pagan Emperors rule that Jesus-denying, trouble-making Jews were not allowed back in Jerusalem.

Theodosius makes Christianity the official religion in 392 AD

In 392 AD, Emperor Theodosius would take matters further, finally declaring Christianity to be the official religion of the Roman Empire, thus becoming the Roman Empire's first "Christian Prince". (The province of Armenia had become the first province of the Roman Empire to elect a "Christian prince". -- The same Armenian Christians that Islam would slay at the end of WW1)

Naturally, this did not set well with the Roman Senate, which was still largely Roman-pagan, but it really did not set well with the Pharisees and Sadducees who were fully expecting, anticipating and working towards Rome's total collapse.

Since the Roman Senate was still Roman-pagan, they were easily agitated by the media-Scribes into a Roman civil war, ignited by the assassination of the Christian emperor of the Western Roman Empire and subsequent appointment of an all-Pagan leadership by the Roman-pagan Senate.

This coup d'etat was put down by Theodosius's trusted General Stilicho during the Battle of the Frigidus.

The Irony of Caesar versus "The Republic"

Who would have imagined that the Pharisees who had originally created Caesar, would now be against the Christian Caesar and on the side of "The Republic"?

Epic Movie Plot for next "Gladiator" Movie

For a look at the heroic life of Christian General Stilicho, as one of Christendom's greatest defenders of the faith, his betrayal by a weak "Christian Prince" and Rome's subsequent final defeat, read the article:
Epic Movie Plot for next "Gladiator"

Stilicho's victory would re-unite the Roman Empire for the last time, but only for a short time.

The real importance of the Battle of the Frigidus is that it would permanently cement Christianity as the dominant faith for all time.

The Death of Stilicho also meant the death of Rome

Stilicho would be called upon over and over again to defend Rome against barbarian invasions.

Only in Stilicho's betrayal and death would Stilicho's archenemy, Alaric of the Visigoths, be able to lay siege to Rome as the first invading army in 800-years.

In 410 AD, Alaric completed his two-year siege entered Rome.

But just as Roman citizens still thought they had a Republic after Augustus took dictatorial control will leaving the Senate in place to give appearances of a Republic, so did the barbarians leave in place both the Senate and the Emperor to give the appearance that an Empire still existed.

Restriction of Jewish praying at the Temple site lifted

In 438 AD, the Eastern Empire was still alive even if the Western half just gave the appearance of being alive.

This was the year that Empress Eudocia removed the ban on NT Jews praying at the Temple site altogether.

To NT Jewish Pharisees, this would be seen as a sign of weakness, not a Christian act of charity.

The heads of the NT Jewish Community in Galilee issued a call "to the great and mighty people of the Jews" which began: "Know that the end of the exile of our people has come!"

Well enough, the exile had indeed come to an end, only to begin in earnest the preparations to betray their Christian benefactors altogether.

The Western Roman Empire falls

Only on September 4, 476 AD, did everyone know for sure that the Western Roman Empire was dead as the last Roman Western Emperor, Romulus Augustus, was replaced by a German barbarian, Odoacer.

At which time, the Sadducees and Pharisees immediately began plotting stage two of the defeat of Rome, the demise of the Eastern Roman Empire of the Byzantines.

They plotted and conspired with Western Civilization's arch enemies, the Persians, to invade Jerusalem in 614 AD for a short, but eventually unsuccessful 5-year period, followed by the more devastating but permanent invasion of their Islamic messiah, Muhammad, in 638 AD, 24 years later.

The Bootstrap of the Roman Empire -- completed!

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Causes for the Decline and Fall

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There are many explanations for the decline and fall of Rome, but none gets to the root cause. Many of the explanations given are (with comments):

• Lack of innovation -- Rome did not innovate with new labor-saving technology, because it depended too much on slave labor (Yelp, especially dependant upon the Jewish slaves)
  
  
• Financial collapse -- Due to inflation caused by the currency debasement started under Nero and due to huge governmental borrowing brought about by numerous civil wars and vast subsidies to Germanic tribes. (Evidence of Jewish Sadducees helping count the money?)
  
  
• Loss of Roman character and loyalty: patriotism: Loss of the loyalty of the Roman soldier -- Loss of the morale and patriotism of Roman citizens. led to military manpower shortages, resulting in the need to enlist large quantities of foreign, non-citizen, mercenary barbarians into the ranks of Rome's Legions who were not ultimately loyal to Rome (Evidence of Jewish media-Scribes?)
  
  
• Piracy and banditry -- A broken justice system, with the injustice allowing piracy and banditry to exist, which in turn caused a reduction in trade and industry (One set of justice for whites and another set of justice for barbarians?)
  
  
• "Bread and Circuses" -- An immoral welfare state, where the barbarian hordes were "paid off" with food, clothing, employment in the military, and eventually, even immigration into Roman territory, in return for not rioting and sacking Roman citizens (Jewish Pharisees had demanded "equality" and "Progressive taxes"?)
  
  
• Collapse of the cities -- Roman citizens, heavily taxed into poverty to pay for Bread and Circuses, having lost many children in endless wars, surrounded by barbarian crime and decadence, started leaving the "inner" cities for peaceful rural life, creating the beginnings of the feudal system, as life in the city became barbarized by the barbarians allowed to immigrate into Roman cities ("Immigrants make us strong!", say the media-Scribes)
  
  
• Centralization of power -- The Caesars, who took dictatorial control, began destroying the self-ruling, self-sustaining city-state model that the Romans had adopted from the Greeks, resulting in feelings of lose of control by ordinary citizens and thereafter loss of Roman love for country. (The media-Scribes had told them that "states rights" people are all red-necked bigots?)
  
  
• Chaos -- Further collapse as the disloyal barbarian soldiers started engaging in military coup d'etats (The media-Scribes had told them to be more "Tolerant" and "Inclusive"?)
  
  
• Loss of culture and civilization -- Swarms of unassimilated foreigners entering the cities refused to engage in Roman society (But the Pharisees made sure they felt welcome by having everything written in both German as well as Latin, didn't they?)
  
  
• Lead Poisoning -- The elite ruling class in Roman society, responsible for managing the economy, government and cultural affairs of Rome, in one example of innovation toward the end of the empire, adopted lead piping in their aqueduct water systems, leading to many premature deaths, just when their years of experience would be most valuable to Rome. (They had Chinese imports even back then?)
  
  Many of these issues America faces today, except our lead poisoning, which today comes from Chinese imports, not water pipes.
  
  Still, the underlying cause is still not addressed. Yes, financial collapse could cause the Roman Empire to fall apart. Yes, financial collapse is caused by government spending on "bread and circuses" and endless civil wars. But what causes an 800-year-old government to have all these problems simultaneously:
  
  
  • A dependence on "slave" labor
    
    
  • A financial stability problem
    
    
  • A loss of Patriotism problem
    
    
  • A loss of trade and business problem
    
    
  • A welfare state problem
    
    
  • A loss of religious faith problem
    
    
  • An unjust justice system problem
    
    
  • A strained middle class problem
    
    
  • A dictatorial centralization of power
    
    
  • A loss if individual and local freedoms problem
    
    
  • A decay of morals problem
    
    
  • A loss of civility problem
    
    
  • An immigration problem
    
    
  • An endless wars problem
    
    
  • A lead poisoning problem
  
  All at the same time?
  
  

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  Some things never change, do they?

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  This is a discussion of a play put on in the 1960's"Slaves, Greeks and Jews":
  The Politics of "Fall of the Roman Empire"
  
  The publisher was the Anti-Defamation League of B'Nai Brith
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  "Equality...freedom...peace...
  Who is it that uses these words but
  Greeks, and Jews, and slaves?"
  
  Can we say today that America's ills are caused by neither Greeks nor Slaves?
• The Jewish History of the World - The Second Diaspora -- The Romans

 

Nero the Antichrist

Emperor Nero became famous primarily for the first persecution of Christians during his reign. Including he used the burning flesh of Christians as candles at his feasts.

The Great Fire in 64 CE in Rome, for nine days he destroyed more districts of the city. Many residents began to accuse Nero of deliberately setting the city on fire; the emperor, in turn, had to turn his suspicions away. To this end, he used the mysterious followers of Christ as a scapegoat.

According to Tacitus, his persecution consisted of throwing Christians to wild dogs to be devoured or the aforementioned nailing to crosses in the garden and setting them on fire. According to Tacitus, the convicts played the role of burning living torches that lit up the feast outside¹.

The Christians themselves considered Nero a persecutor of faith. Eusebius of Caesarea mentioned that “was the first that persecuted this doctrine². and Tertullian that he was “the first who wielded the sword of the empire against the Christian religion”³.

Moreover, many followers of Christ believed that Nero was the Antichrist by virtue of his outstanding cruelty and corruption, and even a False Prophet.

TRUMP IS OWNED BY JEWS!

These names, and a few others, became familiar to American Jews over the four years of Donald Trump’s first term in the White House. Depending on the day, and their political views, Jews looked at them with pride or scorn, hope or disappointment. In addition to shaping the course of the first Trump administration, they became symbols of and conduits for the president’s relationship with the Jewish community.

Now, four years later, as Trump prepares to reenter the White House, some of that cast of characters is back while others have dropped off the stage. Other Jewish figures are making their entrances for the first time. Some come from Trump’s time in the worlds of media and business, others from his decade in politics, still others from his family.

Who are the Jews in Trump's inner circle and how will they affect his second term? | The Times of Israel

Egypt alert in Sinai causes anger in US and Israel - WHY?

The raising of combat alert in the 2nd Army units in Sinai “sprung” the Americans who sent an implicit threat. What is behind it?

The Nziv Report 31.03.2025

"About 10 days ago, we reported about the implicit threat of the Egyptian Minister of Defense and Chief of Staff towards Israel, who called on the Egyptian army units to be ready to fight at any moment they had to do so.

But we did not think that the security situation in the Sinai region would deteriorate so quickly!

The Americans must intervene (and it seems that they are already doing so in both the diplomatic and military dimensions) or Israel will have to take appropriate precautionary measures so as not to be surprised again like in 1973!!

The area has been the scene of unusual military movements until recently, most notably the flight of American MQ-4C Triton reconnaissance and spy drones along the Egyptian border. 

These aircraft, which take off from the Sigonella base in Italy, not far from Egypt, are considered among the most modern aerial intelligence-gathering systems. 

Their last flight took place along the Libyan border, then continued along the Egyptian coast, getting even closer to the Delta region. Some sources indicate that they continued flying as far as the eastern regions of Egypt, probably towards the Sinai Peninsula, before returning to their base in Italy.

What makes this aircraft so important is its advanced capabilities in the field of reconnaissance and electronic intelligence collection. 

It is an unmanned aerial vehicle capable of collecting critical intelligence information without having to violate Egyptian airspace or even enter territorial waters. 

It has advanced sensors capable of detecting Egyptian radar signals from distances of up to 926 km, allowing it to collect precise information about the nature of air defense systems and their electromagnetic waves. This type of operation helps build what is called a “threat library”, which is later used to determine how to deal with defense systems, whether through electronic jamming or direct attack.

This aircraft is also equipped with a 370 km range synthetic aperture radar, capable of imaging and mapping targets, and allows it to identify land and sea targets with high accuracy.

This type of aircraft has played a key role in the Ukraine-Russia war, performing reconnaissance flights in advance of every Ukrainian military operation, especially in the Crimean region, where it has mapped the locations of warships, air defense systems, and air bases. 

These facts make the movements of American aircraft near the Egyptian coast extremely significant, especially in light of the escalation of regional tensions and recent Egyptian military actions, such as raising the combat readiness level of the Second Army and visits by the Minister of Defense and the Chief of Staff. in the various branches of the military.

The timing of these actions may also be appropriate to send clear deterrent messages by demonstrating the seriousness of military movements."

In the Bible the nation of Egypt is considered the King of the South, and the King of the North is a confederation of Iran, Syria, possibly Iraqi Shi'ites. These nations will wage war on the Antichrist. Trump's aggression 

THE ANTICHRIST WILL CLAIM TO BE THE JEWISH MESSIAH AND WAGE WAR ON ARAB NATIONS SURROUNDING ISRAEL ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE

THESE ARE THE WARS OF THE ANTICHRIST!

Daniel Chapter 11

 

⁴⁰ And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.

⁴¹ He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.     (Take Note: The Antichrist enters the glorious land to overthrow the Arab nations except Jordan, could this be Trump Gaza?)

⁴² He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape. (Take Note: of Trump and Israel's recent tensions with Egypt)

⁴³ But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.

⁴⁴ But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.

⁴⁵ And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him. (Take Note: The Antichrist takes a blow to the head)

 

Revelation 13:3 “And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.”

 

In Daniel Chapter 12:1 we see after this wound of the Beast that the Tribulation begins.

 

"And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book."

 

Matthew 24:21 “For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.”

 

Antichrist will play on Talmudic tradition and the Biblical illiteracy of Christians!

Zephaniah 2:4-7

 

The Messiah ben Joseph Connection

"You might be surprised to know that many Jewish people are waiting for a man to do exactly the things I just said the Antichrist will do. Namely, they are waiting for a man called Messiah ben Joseph to destroy the enemies of Israel and after these wars march victoriously to Israel, where he will be killed by his enemies, but then miraculously resurrected. His resurrection will be the beginning of the Messianic Age, but not before a rooting out and killing of those who will not submit to the new Messianic authority. If you are following me so far, you can see how scary this idea about Messiah ben Joseph is, because it essentially means the Jews are waiting on someone Christians know of as the Antichrist.

Let me first explain the concept of Messiah ben Joseph. The Talmud, one of the most important Jewish texts, when trying to reconcile the various natures of the Messiah in the Bible (suffering servant, king, and conqueror), came up with the idea that there will actually be two Messiahs in the end times. The first, Messiah ben Joseph, will precede Messiah ben David. Messiah ben David is considered to be the superior Messiah. Messiah ben Joseph will do all the things I just mentioned, and then Messiah ben David will be the one who actually rules over the Messianic Age as king.

There are many different views about how the end times will play out in the Jewish world, but this view about the two Messiahs is widely accepted by any Jew taking a literal view of the end times, probably because the concept of Messiah ben Joseph appears in the all-important Talmud, it was adopted and expanded on by almost every Jewish commentator in the Middle Ages, and has become a very entrenched belief in Judaism.

The following is what the Jewish Encyclopedia says about Messiah ben Joseph (follow the footnotes if you are interested in finding some of the sources for the beliefs about this).

Messiah b. Joseph will appear prior to the coming of Messiah b. David; he will gather the children of Israel around him, march to Jerusalem, and there, after overcoming the hostile powers, reestablish the Temple-worship and set up his own dominion. Thereupon Armilus, according to one group of sources, or Gog and Magog, according to the other, will appear with their hosts before Jerusalem, wage war against Messiah b. Joseph, and slay him. His corpse, according to one group, will lie unburied in the streets of Jerusalem; according to the other, it will be hidden by the angels with the bodies of the Patriarchs, until Messiah b. David comes and resurrects him. ⁴

This is so clearly a description of the Antichrist in Daniel 11 that prominent rabbis such as Isaac Abrabanel (1437–1508) have claimed that the Christians invented the concept of the Antichrist based on their view of Messiah ben Joseph.

5 This is an absurd assertion, but it helps show that even they see the obvious connection between a man they view as their savior and the man Christians call the Antichrist.

 

I should mention here that some modern Jewish believers are unaware of the concept of the two Messiahs, despite it being taught by almost every major sage since the Talmud. This is because there are numerous divergent beliefs about the Messiah in Judaism today. I have often had Jewish believers that say something like, “We don’t believe that,” respond with shock when I point to the teachings about Messiah ben Joseph in their favorite rabbis, like Rashi, Nahmanides, or Saadia. The point I will make later is that it isn’t that important for modern Jewish people to have been taught these concepts in their modern synagogues; the important thing is that the teachings are there and they can be exploited by the Antichrist or the False Prophet when the time comes.

The Extermination of Those Who Will Not Worship the Antichrist

For obvious reasons, the following doctrine held by many Jewish theologians hasn’t been widely explained to non-Jews. But there is a belief that after the resurrection of Messiah ben Joseph, a time of cleansing of those who refuse to accept monotheism will be necessary in order to usher in the time of Messianic peace. Joseph Sarachek addresses this point in The Doctrine of the Messiah in Medieval Jewish Literature:

The general belief is that when Israel becomes supreme, the unrepentant Gentiles and the inveterate foes among them will be extirpated [“to root out and destroy completely” ⁶]. Others will accept monotheism. As a visible token of their acknowledgment they will practice some Jewish ordinances. ⁷ (emphasis added)

Sarachek is saying here that Jewish theologians generally believe that after Israel becomes supreme, those who won’t accept Jewish monotheism will need to be found and completely wiped out. This sheds new light on why the greatest persecution of all time happens after the Antichrist officially declares his supremacy. It also explains why the epicenter of that persecution is in Judea and helps us to better understand the nature of the persecution and why it will be willingly carried out by so many.

...I have shown that the Antichrist is a man of war and that those whom he wars against are exclusively the enemies of Israel. I’ve made the case that this suggests he is defeating these enemies in order to look as if he is fulfilling the messianic prophecies I referenced. I stated that his death in verse 45 of Daniel 11 must be a reference to the mortal head wound that he will recover from, based on the following verse that links that period to the midpoint and the abomination of desolation. Finally, I’ve discussed the undeniable links to the Antichrist’s actions in Daniel 11:40–45 and the Jewish belief in Messiah ben Joseph and how the persecution that Jesus and Daniel warned us about might be linked to the belief of the genocidal “cleansing” period after Messiah ben Joseph is resurrected."

False Christ - The Wars of Antichrist

High-profile Jewish rabbi claims Trump is a messiah appointed by God to serve Israel

A high-profile Jewish rabbi has claimed that former president Donald Trump was anointed as a non-Jewish messiah by God to serve the state of Israel.

Rabbi Isser Zalman Weisberg of Toronto, Canada, has made the bold claim as it looks increasingly likely that Trump will support Israel as it continues its genocidal mission in Gaza.

Pastor and author Chuck Baldwin recently analyzed the rabbi’s words, and there is a lot to unpack here.

The rabbi cites multiple reasons he is convinced that Trump is a non-Jewish messiah who will serve the Jewish people. One is the fact that his right ear was grazed by a bullet in a recent assassination attempt in Pennsylvania, which he likens to a passage in the Torah stating that “a servant who wants to remain with his master needs to have his right ear pierced.”

He also claimed that the final deadline for “the redemption” is a Jewish year that corresponds to October of 2027, which would take place during Trump’s tenure if he were reelected president.

He asserted: “And I have good reason to believe Donald Trump was chosen to be the one to redeem the sins of Azof through offering his assistance in rebuilding the holy temple on the Temple Mount and establishing the Jewish kingdom over all of mankind in Jerusalem.”

The rabbi went on to say that while Trump may take steps to protect the U.S.’s borders and improve its economy, “America will be great when the messiah comes. And the leader of this country, on behalf of all the good people in this country, will humbly present himself to the Jewish messiah and ask him to accept the United States of America into a new alliance of countries who accept the leadership of the messiah.”

The rhetoric becomes even more frightening when he suggests that Trump will rid the world of “the enemies of the Jews.”

“I believe this man was chosen to be the one to represent Western society in greeting the Messiah in Jerusalem, chosen to bow his head in humility to messiah, and to offer America’s complete, unconditional assistance to completely eradicate all of the enemies of the Jews and of God and in the establishment of the eternal kingdom of the messiah,” he said.

In other words, the rabbi envisions a world that has been taken over by Zionists, with Trump ushering the U.S. into a world dominated by Israel and supporting the Jewish state in its quest the conquer the Middle East and eventually the world at large.

Trump vowed to help Israel at recent campaign event

Baldwin pointed out that Jewish rabbis are possibly the only types of religious leaders who can get away with making these types of statements. He added that the real concern here, however, is the fact that millions of Christians also buy into the rabbi’s belief and view America as a country that exists to protect Israel and help it fight its battles.

“Evangelicals have almost totally forgotten that the motto of America’s War for Independence was “We Recognize No Sovereign But God, And No King But Jesus.” They are enthusiastically trading a nation that was built upon the principles of Christianity and God’s Natural Laws (these United States) and are turning it over to the spirit of antichrist,” he added.

At a recent campaign event in New Jersey, Trump vowed to help Israel win the war it is waging against Hamas if he wins the election, making statements like “No president has ever been so good to Israel by far as I have” and “We’re going to save Israel.”

High-profile Jewish rabbi claims Trump is a messiah appointed by God to serve Israel

TRUMP’S ONE-WORLD CHURCH CABINET 

- President Donald Trump’s cabinet represents the eclectic, ecumenical one-world “church” that is a preparation for Mystery Babylon the Great of Revelation 17. Rome--arrayed in purple and scarlet, decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand, full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication, drunken with the blood of the saints--has always been a major part of this preparation. It is no surprise, then, that Roman Catholics form the greatest part of America’s presidential cabinet in these very last hours of the last days. J.D. Vance (Vice President), Lori Chavez-DeRemer (Secretary of Labor), Linda McMahon (Secretary of Education), Sean Duffy (Secretary of Transportation), John Ratcliffe (CIA Director), Kelly Loeffler (Small Business Administration Administrator), and Karoline Leavitt (Press Secretary) are Catholic. Scott Turner (Secretary of Department of Housing and Urban Development) and Douglas Collins (Secretary of Veterans Affairs) are Baptist. Marco Rubio (Secretary of State) attends both Roman Catholic and Southern Baptist churches and speaks highly of Mormonism. Kristi Noem (Secretary of Homeland Security) is Foursquare Pentecostal. Susie Wiles (Chief of Staff) is Episcopalian. Doug Burgum (Secretary of the Interior) is Methodist. Pete Hegseth (Secretary of Defense) is Reformed Evangelical. Tulsi Gabbard (Director of National Intelligence) is a Hindu who took her congressional oath on the Bhagavad Gita. Mehmet Oz (Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) is a “secular Muslim” influenced by Sufism and Emmanuel Swedenborg, who entertained spirit guides and was deeply involved with Eastern mysticism. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Secretary of Health and Human Services) “traces his spiritual shift to the writings of psychiatrist Carl Jung’s idea that ‘it’s irrelevant if there’s a God up there or not, but if you believe in one, your chances of living a healthier life, and recovery, are better.’” Scott Bessent (Secretary of Treasury), a homosexual, is an active Huguenot. Howard Lutnick (Secretary of Commerce) is Jewish. Mike Waltz (UN ambassador) is Lutheran. Paula White-Cain (Senior Advisor to the White House Faith Office) is a Pentecostal Word-Faith pastor, “apostolic leader,” and self-esteem guru. The hour is very late!

Friday Church News, May 9, 2025 - Way of Life Literaure