ROME PATTERNED AFTER GOD'S KINGDOM

The parable of the workers was about nothing else but the Kingdom of God (Mat 20:1). There, Christ is King and He revealed that it is His Kingdom to do as He sees fit to do. He was revealing to the crowd that He would be the judge of who gets what and how long they must endure to obtain the Kingdom. He would be the ‘Dictator’ in a manner of speaking.

Of course, in the parable, Jesus was using an estate to make His point. It does so very eloquently because the Kingdom of His is in heaven — in another realm (John 18:36).

His Estate would be very much like the householder’s in the parable. Most people have not noticed but the Roman Kingdom became much like the Kingdom of Heaven in that the latter came first. Jesus even compared His Kingdom to the estate of a certain householder (Mat 20:1). He had one in mind, it seems. That householder in the Greek was oikodespotes, meaning “head of the family.” In the end, the householder treated those that he hired as he would his family; they all received the same pay without regard to which came first. (He ignored the Law of Primogeniture, the natural law.)

Now, rather than considering who worked most, think of the workers as family. By the Law of Primogeniture, the one who came first would get the entire estate. Throughout history, the Hebrews mostly determined an inheritance by which son came first. For example, Esaw came first, but eventually, Jacob stole his birthright that belonged to Esaw by the Law of Primogeniture (Gen 25:33).

However, the Romans did not have that law. Usually, the estate was given to each child equally. Who came first in Roman  Law was not of concern nor even if the person was biological family or not.

As it turned out, Jacob, then called ‘Israel,’ divided the birthright that he stole from Esaw. Each of his ‘sons,’ even his two adopted sons, sons of Joseph, received nearly an equal portion. As it turned out, all but Judah and Benjamin had their share squandered and the other ten heirs disappeared to history. They sold their birthrights by sinning.

Jesus likened heaven to a householder. That householder could have been Caesar since God patterned the Roman Empire after Israel. How so? Throughout history, according to Livy’s History of Rome (or Ab Urbe Condita). The Roman Empire, as it evolved through time, was ruled by a series of kings, councils, and dictators until it had one ‘King of kings’ — Augustus Caesar who was a dictator turned emperor.

The word ‘Caesar’ comes from the Latin, meaning ‘head of hair.’ (Caesar Family History). It began as a family name, and soon all Caesar’s afterward adopted that name so often that it became a title for about any head of an empire. The titles Tzar, Kaiser, and Czar; among others, came from that family name. Most leaders prefer to be called a ‘Caesar’ than a dictator for obvious reasons!

The first known ‘Caesar’ was Sextus Julius Caesar of the house of Julii — the progenitor of the non-genetic house of Caesar.

Tiberius was adopted, so genetically, he was not Julian nor did he deserve the cognomen (nickname) that reflected their origin.

For instance, Tiberius Caesar was adopted, but by adoption, he was still a Caesar. The Kingdom of Heaven uses that same cognomen. God — the heavenly ‘Caesar’ (King of kings) “Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein He has made us accepted in the beloved” (Ephes 1:4-5).

That is by the same process as Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus was adopted by Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (Octavian Caesar). Tiberius was the step-son of the ‘householder’ Augustus Caesar and carried on the family name although it was not his genetic identity, or family.

That was no coincidence. God created empires for His specific reasons. He had created the Assyrian Empire to cleanse the genetics of Jacob’s rebellious sons, and the Babylonians to purify the genetics of the sons of Judah and Benjamin. After those chores were accomplished, God then created the Hellenistic Empire (Greece) to make the Jews sorry they were ever born!

By the time of the Roman Empire, the Davidian household, from the genes of Abraham, had been shattered, leaving only an ethnarchy — Judea. The Jewish Empire had once been the great Davidian Empire, and only Jews — the ethnarch Hebrews — had disappeared from history. (Ethnarch points toward genetic Jewry.)

The final straw was when God created the Herodian Empire to bring the Jews to their knees. Although he was ‘Herod the Great’ because of his accomplishments, he made a name for himself by trying to finally terminate even the thoughts of a Davidian Kingdom’ then along came Jesus, the ‘son of David’ and heir to the throne of David.

Jesus was born King of kings. He was the supernatural born ‘Caesar’ and Judea was His household on Earth.

Just like the early kings of Rome created the Caesarian Dynasty, the early kings of all of Israel created the Davidian Dynasty. David was a ‘Caesar’ as the youngest son of Jesse. That was in the works for centuries, as Paul reminded us, “Esaias said, ‘There shall be a root of Jesse, and He that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in Him shall the Gentiles trust” (Rom 15:12).

When Jesse sired his children, the Kingdom of God was established. The Kingdom of Jesus had Jesse as it’s root, or as a ‘Caesar.’  God always uses later sons, as He did with David and Jacob long before him, even Moses rather than Aaron. Plus, God cared little whether they were real or adopted sons, so long as He was their God.

Ancient history reveals that Mose (Moses) may have been the son of the Pharoah, Ahmose. He was the actual son of Amran, but he would have carried the cognomen ‘Mose’ after his adopted father Ahmose.  As a king under Pharoah, Moses would be of Pharoah — “The Great House.” Hence, Moses was not his name but his cognomen.

The point to all this history is that God usually created ‘Houses’ with various ‘householders’ and that the parable was not just about any estate, but the governments that God created; specifically the ‘Householder’ Caesar and his heirs.

To wrap up that thesis, consider the House of Julii when the Herod’s ruled the part of Syria around Jerusalem. Herod was king of Judea and surrounding areas. Other parts of Syria had their kings. All those kings reported to Caesar, who by the time of the end of the Herodians (AD 70) were Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian; each Caesars one after another — the father and his two sons, consecutively.

As Jesus died, a new type of Caesar began to be molded, on the order of the Godhead. As the old way was destroyed (the Temple) an invisible empire took its place. It, however, was made visible. Vespasian and his two sons symbolized the ‘godhead.’

Vespasian was the father general who became the Householder of the Roman Empire. He too was a Caesar of the House of Flavius; it was a new beginning (dynasty), but he too kept the title Caesar.

While Vespasian was in Rome on his throne, his son Titus was in Judea and had the authority of his father. According to tradition, according to Josephus, Titus would have been the right hand (in authority) of Caesar and in the absence of Caesar, Titus would have effectively been Caesar.

The same applies to his son, Domitian. His role was more of a governor of foreign interests. He too, in the absence of Caesar, was Caesar. He too was Caesar’s right hand, so to speak.

After defeating the Jews, Vespasian’s Triumphal March into Rome included himself and both his sons, Titus and Domitian. In effect, they were a ‘godhead’ on the order of the Holy Trinity; them even having the title of Pontifex Maximus which is essentially Lord of lords. As King of kings Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian were Caesar’s that marched in triumph.

Compare that to the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Vespasian was the father, Titus the son who appeared in person in Judea, and Domitian who never showed his face there!

Of course, they were not real Caesars, being Flavians, and not real Lord of lords, but God patterned that new House of Flavians, not after dictators, but the Regime of God Himself.

After a major victory, it was usually accompanied by a triumphal march to Rome by whoever the general or leader happened to be. This one time, all three leaders appeared to march in triumph over their enemies, rather than one at a time.

The Flavian Dynasty was a facsimile of the Davidian Dynasty of Jesus. Not only did they have their godhead, but marched in triumph in the manner of Jesus.

After Jesus defeated death, in the company of the once dead man, Lazarus, something very Romanish happened:

On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet Him, and cried, “Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that comes in the Name of the Lord” and Jesus, when He had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is written, “Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's colt.” (John 12:12-15)

Note who was on that colt and its mother ass? (Mat 21:2). Jesus was on the colt. Nobody was riding the ass, or not? Jesus came in the Name of the Lord.

The Son was riding the colt, but on the mother of the colt, sat God, the Father, it seems. Everyone has come up with geriatrics about how Jesus may have rode on two steeds, but the empty one was surely reserved for the Father, just as Vespasian was in the Triumphal March as well!

Where was the Domitian figure, the Holy Ghost? He needed no steed because of the baptism of John; Jesus and His Ghost rode together as Sons of God in One.

In the process of time, Vespasian and both his sons sat on the throne in Rome. No longer were the two the right hands of their father, but acted as their father, having the authority of Caesar as they became Caesar’s, thus the concept of three-in-one.

That is not to say that God copied His Realm from the Romans, but that he rebuilt Rome according to His Realm!

Whereas the Flavians had just defeated Jerusalem and would make a new life there, the resurrection of Lazarus proved that Jesus would do the same for us.