Christians do not like the idea that God uses evil people for his purposes
just as Satan uses Christians for His. God allowed Assyria, Babylon, and the
Media-Persian Empire to exist for His purpose – to thresh the Hebrew people. Mesopotamia
was God’s threshing floor, and the first two threshed the Hebrew people while
the latter saved the “good grain”. Persia preserved the Hebrew people because
they seemed bent on destroying themselves, and thus the “Church”. With God’s
chosen people destroyed, God would seem to suffer defeat. The following passage
explains the intense jealousy the world has for the Jewish people: 346
For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy
God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that
are upon the face of the earth.
Jews are God’s people, and thus
are the Church; not that they are yet righteous but God has a special place in
His Plan for them. God was to use Jewish blood to save mankind, and it appears that those of Jewish blood would
kill God! Ironically, Satan would use God’s chosen, not to pull the trigger,
but to foment dissent. The threshing floor is where God is to judge mankind but
on that threshing floor, mankind judged God! The Hebrew people are Adamic in
nature; of God but unfaithful.
After remaining silent, God made
another attempt to save mankind from himself. Weakling human gods and goddesses
are powerless; never being able to save themselves from themselves.
Gaius Julius Caesar arose
triumphant from the triumvirate of Rome, disestablishing the Roman Republic to
create the Roman Empire. Caesar was another one of God’s “useful fools” just as
Titus and Pilate would soon be. As a result of the Caesar’s the Roman Empire
itself became a useful tool. After
Caesar served his purpose in creating an empire, his friends turned on him. Caesar
was assassinated by the senators: Gaius Cassius Longinus, Marcus Junius Brutus
and Decimus Junius Brutus. 347 When Caesar was stabbed in the back,
Shakespeare recounted, et tu Brute!
(Even you Brutus) in his play Julius
Caesar.
Caesar was a self-proclaimed
god. This inscription, dated 49 B.C.,
says it all: “Descendant of Ares and Aphrodite - The God who has become
manifest (θεὸν ἐπιφανῆ) - And universal savior (σωτῆρα) of human life. 348
The Romans had no problem killing gods,
and God was no exception! Caesar’s
friend killed him – et tu Brute. When
Eve killed God (in her own life), and Adam followed, God could just as easily
had exclaimed, et tu Adamas, because his
best friend had just collaborated against him! When God was killed that could
have been, et tu Yisrael!
It seems that those who most attack God are those who should be close to
Him.The threshing floor – the Church – is where God fends off false teaching
and teachers, as well as false friends!
Titus was doing another Caesar’s will, and Caesars became those other
gods besides God. As Kaisars, Tzars, Czars they still are, German, Russian and
English for “Caesar” which came to mean “Emperor”. 349 Thus, autocrats everywhere have
established a new god besides God. Rather being subjects of God, they are
subjects of the autocrat. They would rather be judged by a Caesar than the
King!
Jerusalem, the temple, and even Calvary were desecrated by the Roman Caesars’s,
having themselves as God besides God. Hadrian had a stature of himself erected
on Calvary and built a Temple to Jupiter in the Holy City. 350
Thus, the Roman Empire became Eden, and the Land of Milk and Honey was eastward
therein. The Garden, was continuing to evolve into the mere foundation of the Kingdom of God which
it had once been. Each empire laid waste to Jerusalem, built their own institutions
therein, and finally, the very “foundation of peace” became the lost to
destruction. Archeologists dig through rubble to this day finding waste from
all those empires until finally, under it all, is just a foundation of what the
city had once been!
The Romans came into existence to kill God. Ironically, after they
finished the awful deed, it was the Romans who revived Him!
346 Holy Bible; Deut 7:6
347 Suetonius (121); "De
vita Caesarum"; University of Chicago; p. 107.
350 http://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-jerusalem-temple-mount-threshing-floor.htm
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