THE HOUSE OF THE CONFUSED
The last episode of Jesus and the disciples, of whom I
wrote, was about the Roman government being antitypical of the Regime of God in
Heaven. They would each be ruled by a ‘trinity’ of sorts, the Holy Trinity of
the Godhead and the Roman triumvirate, the first of which was the three-in-one
of Pompeius, Crassus, and Julius, the latter whose cognomen was ‘Caesar.’
The second triumvirate was more formal: Octavian, Antony,
and Lepidus. Just as Julius arose from the first triumvir to be ‘Caesar,’
Octavian arose to become a ‘Caesar’ as well. There was one problem, Octavian
was adopted and not of the house of Julii, so he was only a ‘Caesar,’ by
adoption.
Technically, there was no further triumvirates — three persons,
ruling as one.
In this caper, the mother of Zebedee’s children came to
Jesus. She had a vision! She wanted for her two children to be fellow-rulers
with King Jesus and essentially sitting with Jesus on his throne surrounded by
her two sons. She was endeavoring to establish a godhead of her own, failing to
see that Jesus was the cornerstone of the Godhead. Jesus, being the one that the
builders rejected, or as Jesus said it, “The stone which the builders rejected,
the same is become the Head of the corner” (Mat 21:42).
Zebedee’s wife was doing the usual thing; what has become
known as ‘court intrigue,’ where members of the court attempt to become royalty
without regard to their genetics. She was doing a very Roman thing!
Note that the woman was essentially asking Jesus a favor; to
make her sons next in line to Jesus, first one son, then the other.
She soon got her wish, but it would not be her sons. By a
miracle, out of the ashes of Rome, after Nero Caesar burned it down, the three
seceding Caesar’s were gone speedily as if by a wind: Gala, Otho, and
Vitellius. You have never heard of them because their reigns were short lived.
Then came a sort of triumvirate: Vespasian, and his two sons, Titus and Domitian;
finally ending the house of Julii.
The triumvirates had served their purposes for both Rome and
for God. The first and second triumvirate mocked God because there were three ‘Caesar’s
on one throne.” Julius Caesar arose from the first triumvirate as the head on
one throne, and Octavian, not even a Julian, arose from the ‘ashes’ of the
second triumvirate.
Then Nero burned Rome to the ground and blamed it on the
Christians. Out of the actual ashes arose Vespasian, the father of his two sons
who would become Caesars.
They were not a triumvirate. They were a legitimate house of
Flavians who served one after another.
Now, think of the Godhead in the same way as the House of
Flavian. Never, were the Julii Caesar’s at the same time. One seceded the
other. In the beginning, there was the father, Vespasian. He was visible on the
throne and was the central figure or ‘head’ of the Julian dynasty.
During the reign of Vespasian, the focal point of the Roman Empire
was not so much Rome but the area, called, ‘Syria’ at that time. After setting
up Syria, Vespasian took his seat on the throne in Rome. Is this getting to
sound familiar? His son, Titus, became the ‘right hand’ with the same autority
of his father and his seat was in Jerusalem.
During the War with the Jews, Titus was quite visible as he
was present there in history. Of course, Vespasian was on the Caesarian throne
in Rome. Where was Domitian?
He was several places, and historians say “perhaps” was
under the care of Titus, or even his own successor, Nerva. Not knowing for
sure, the location of Domitian at that crucial time, made him seem to be
invisible. You may now begin to see where this is headed.
Domitian was the invisible power who aided and abetted both
the father and the son, Vespasian and Titus, respectively. He was being set up
to be the third person of the House of Flavius to be one of the three Caesar’s,
and who were effectively the godhead of Rome as well since the House of Caesar
were also Pontifices Maximus — High Priests of the college of Pontiffs.
They were ‘Lord of lords’ so to speak, and as Caesar’s were ‘King of kings’
that ruled kingdoms by proxies.
After the Romans destroyed the Herodians and claimed that empire as fully theirs, as usual the Roman ruler who defeated the enemy would have a Triumphal March. It was the custom of Rome since the beginning of the empire. Now read about the triumphal entry of Titus after becoming victorious:
But what made the most splendid appearance
in Titus's opinion was, when his father met him, and received him; but still
the multitude of the citizens conceived the greatest joy when they saw them all
three together (Vespasian and his two sons, Titus and Domitian), as they did at
this time; nor were many days overpast when they determined to have but one
triumph, that should be common to both of them, on account of the glorious
exploits they had performed, although the senate had decreed each of them a
separate triumph by himself. (Josephus, The War
of the Jews, Book VII, chapter V, paragraph 3)
Vespasian and Titus
came out crowned with laurel, and clothed in those ancient purple habits which
were proper to their family, and then went as far as Octavian's Walks; for
there it was that the senate, and the principal rulers, and those that had been
recorded as of the equestrian order, waited for them. Now a tribunal had been
erected before the cloisters, and ivory chairs had been set upon it, when they
came and sat down upon them. Whereupon the soldiery made an acclamation of joy
to them immediately, and all gave them attestations of their valor; while they
were themselves without their arms, and only in their silken garments, and
crowned with laurel: then Vespasian accepted of these shouts of theirs; but
while they were still disposed to go on in such acclamations, he gave them a
signal of silence. And when every body entirely held their peace, he stood up,
and covering the greatest part of his head with his cloak, he put up the
accustomed solemn prayers; the like prayers did Titus put up also; after which
prayers Vespasian made a short speech to all the people, and then sent away the
soldiers to a dinner prepared for them by the emperors. (ibid; paragraph 4)
Unknown to the Romans this time only, the Triumph was marked
in three persons, one of which was not recognized like the other two.
On this one occasion, the Triumphal March was made like the
entry of Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. There were two steeds that were
observed in the Triumph of Jesus. He was riding one, one seemed empty, and there
was one that was essentially invisible.
The empty ass was for the Father, the colt was for the Son,
and not seen was the Holy Ghost who was in Jesus since he had yet to be glorified
(revealed; John 7:39).
Hopefully, the reader can understand that the Triumphal
Entry of Vespasian and his sons mocked the Triumphal Entry of Jesus. Or
perhaps, it may have been so that Christians could better understand just who
it was that rode in Triumph into Jerusalem for accolades even before the final
victory over the adversary.
Now let’s return to the mother of Zebedee’s two sons: James and John:
Then
came to him the mother of Zebedee’s children with her sons, worshipping Him,
and desiring a certain thing of Him. And He said unto her, “What wants you?”
She
said unto Him, “Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right
hand, and the other on the left, in your kingdom…”
And when the ten heard it, they were moved with indignation against the two brethren. But Jesus called them unto him, and said, “You know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them.” (Mat 20-21; 24-25)
Their mother entirely missed the point; Jesus was not come
to make a ‘House of Yahweh’ but an ‘orphanage’ for the lost children of
God — the Jews and the Gentiles.
The House of God would be torn down, not by Titus, but by
the Jews themselves. We think of the Jews as horrible people, but that empire
was made to introduce Jesus to the world. Titus did defeat the Jews, but it was
the same bunch of Jews that killed Jesus (the ‘malefactors) that would tear
down the Temple — the House of God.
The Triumph of Jesus would be that He saved the people of
the nations — Jew and Gentile, and the triumph of the House of Flavius was that
they saved at least one wall of the House of God, the one western wall where children
of God still pray.
Note also that Jesus rode in Triumph, not to war like a
dictator on a white horse, but to serve mankind. He was the ‘Holocaust’ that was
burned when He went to Hell to deliver sin and Satan. Out of the grace, He
arose glorified; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost that had become undone
at the crucifixion was redone.
Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian saved the empire after Nero
burned it down, and with that accomplished, the House of Julii was replaced with
the House of Flavius.
The same was done with Jesus; before the Temple was the
House of God and after the crucifixion, Jesus was the House of God, not made of
stone and mortar, but ‘lively stones’ (1 Pet 2:5) with Jesus as the Cornerstone
in the manner of Vespasian.
With that background, perhaps now the reader understands the
Kingdom that God built and ruled and how the three homeostasis of the Godhead
are Yahweh, Jesus, and the Holy Ghost of Jesus; and that the Flavian
Dynasty symbolized the Christian Godhead.
Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian were in homeostasis, of ‘similar
status,’ while each were stopped where they were. [1]
Zebedee’s wife was thinking of an empire and court like the
one that would come after Herod’s Temple was torn down. Ironically, as it
turned out, the House of Flavii was just as she imagined, except it was not
Jesus and her sons, but Vespasian and his sons.
The House of Jesus is the one that He built. It was not an oligarchy,
but a House of Servants that God built on the ruins of Jerusalem!
In Christ is part of the Court of the Godhead, and therein
all subjects are of the Royal Priesthood (1 Pet 2:9), not just James and John.
Now you know why God picked the Flavians for Gentile Christians
to better understand the Godhead.
[1] Here, I refer to the
symbolism of the ‘God Coin’ from my video. On the obverse is the head and the
reverse whatever the reverse may be. When the coin is spun and in dynamics, the
head and tails remain unseen until it is stopped to reveal either heads or
tails, never both together. That is the example of homeostasis of the head (Jesus),
the back parts, (Yahweh), and the dynamics of the power, ‘Virtue’ (the Holy Spirit,)
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