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(see "Prophetic Vocabulary")
Note; Can a Juror determine truth without hearing ALL of the evidence? It is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that one hear ALL of the evidence, beginning with Part #1 of these posts!
In PART #11, the JURY heard evidence that STRONGLY linked DANIEL'S "Little Horn / King" to the Roman Empire.
In this Post, the Jury will hear testimony that will continue to support the "CHAIN of EVIDENCE" that would point towards the Roman Empire and this "Little King".
In Part #6, the TESTIMONY of DANIEL introduced the JURY to the "Little Horn / King".
In Part #7, the JURY heard the TESTIMONY of DANIEL and REVELATION that;
-WHAT DANIEL CALLS the "Little Horn / King";
REVELATION identifies as SATAN;
4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
DANIEL 8 goes on to TESTIFY that this "Little King" WOULD TAKE AWAY THE JEWISH "DAILY SACRIFICE".
DANIEL 8 also TESTIFIES that this "Little King" WOULD DESTROY GOD'S SANCTUARY, which WAS the Jewish Temple located in Jerusalem.
We will now call "Documented Human History" back to the Witness Stand, that the JURY might hear the testimony of the "SANCTUARY" (Jewish Temple) and the "Daily Sacrifice".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_in_Jerusalem
The Bible reports that the First Temple was built in 957 BCE by King Solomon (reigned c. 970-c. 930 BCE).
As the sole place of Jewish sacrifice, the Temple replaced the portable sanctuary constructed in the Sinai Desert under the auspices of Moses, as well as local sanctuaries, and altars in the hills.
The First Temple was totally destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BCE when they sacked the city.
According to the Book of Ezra, construction of the Second Temple was authorized by Cyrus the Great and began in 538 BCE, after the fall of the Babylonian Empire the year before.
During the Roman occupation of Judea, the Temple remained under control of the Jewish people.
It was later destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE during the Siege of Jerusalem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korban
THE END OF SACRIFICES
With the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans, the Jewish practice of offering korbanot stopped for all intents and purposes.
Despite subsequent intermittent periods of small Jewish groups offering the traditional sacrifices on the Temple Mount, the practice effectively ended.
According to the TESTIMONY of "Documented Human History" the Jewish "Daily Sacrifice" was taken away BY THE ROMAN EMPIRE, when they CAST DOWN the Temple IN JERUSALEM and it's Sacrificial Alter.
HOWEVER, it is the TESTIMONY of DANIEL, that the "Little King" was responsible for these acts, NOT the Leopard/Bear/Lion Beast.
The DEFENSE will now call "Documented Human History" to the witness stand, that the JURY may hear the TESTIMONY of the SANCTUARY cast down and the "daily sacrifice".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Jewish-Roman_War
The First Jewish–Roman War (66–73 CE), sometimes called The Great Revolt was the first of three major rebellions by the Jews of Judaea Province (Iudaea), against the Roman Empire.
The Great Revolt began in the year 66 CE, originated in the Greek and Jewish religious tensions, later escalated due to anti-taxation protests and attacks upon Roman citizens.
According to Josephus, the violence, which began at Caesarea in 66, was provoked by Greeks sacrificing birds in front of a local synagogue.
The Roman garrison did not intervene and the long-standing Hellenistic and Jewish religious tensions took a downward spiral.
In reaction, one of the Jewish Temple clerks Eliezar ben Hanania ceased prayers and sacrifices for the Roman Emperor at the Temple.
Protests over taxation joined the list of grievances and random attacks on Roman citizens and perceived 'traitors' occurred in Jerusalem.
The Jewish Temple was then breached by Roman troops at the order of Roman governor Gessius Florus, having seventeen talents removed from the treasury of the Temple, claiming the money was for the Emperor.
In response to this action, the city fell into unrest and some of the Jewish population began to openly mock Florus by passing a basket around to collect money as if Florus was poor.
Florus reacted to the unrest by sending soldiers into Jerusalem the next day to raid the city and arrest a number of the city leaders, who were later whipped and crucified, despite many of them being Roman citizens.
Shortly, outraged Judean nationalist factions took up arms and the Roman military garrison of Jerusalem was quickly overrun by rebels.
Fearing the worst, the pro-Roman king Agrippa II and his sister Berenice fled Jerusalem to Galilee.
Judean militias later moved upon Roman citizens of Judaea and pro-Roman officials, cleansing the country of any Roman symbols.
Cestius Gallus, the legate of Syria, brought the Syrian army, based on XII Fulminata, reinforced by auxiliary troops, to restore order and quell the revolt.
The legion, however, was ambushed and defeated by Jewish rebels at the Battle of Beth Horon, a result that shocked the Roman leadership.
The defeat of the Romans in Beth Horon is considered one of the worst military defeats of the Roman Empire by a rebel province throughout its history.
Some 6,000 Roman troops were killed and many more wounded in the battle with Legio XII Fulminata losing its aquila, as general Gallus abandoned his troops in disarray fleeing to Syria.
An aquila, or eagle, was the standard of a Roman legion.
It was carried by a legionary known as an aquilifer, or eagle-bearer.
One eagle was carried by each legion.
A lost standard was considered an extremely grave occurrence, and the Roman military often went to great lengths to both protect a standard and to recover it if lost;
Emperor Nero appointed general Vespasian, instead of Gallus to crush the rebellion.
His second-in-command was to be his son Titus.
Vespasian was given four legions and in 67 CE invaded the Galilee, working his way towards Jerusalem and destroying the rebel forces on the way.
Vespasian, along with legions X Fretensis and V Macedonica, landed at Ptolemais in April 67.
There he was joined by his son Titus, who arrived from Alexandria at the head of Legio XV Apollinaris, as well as by the armies of various local allies including that of king Agrippa II.
Fielding more than 60,000 soldiers, Vespasian began operations by subjugating Galilee.
Many towns gave up without a fight, although others had to be taken by force.
By the year 68, Jewish resistance in the north had been crushed, and Vespasian made Caesarea Maritima his headquarters and methodically proceeded to cleanse the coastline of the country, avoiding direct confrontation with the rebels at Jerusalem.
The leaders of the collapsed Northern revolt, John of Giscala and Simon Bar Giora, managed to escape to Jerusalem, which was packed with militants of many factions and largely cut off by Roman forces.
Jerusalem quickly descended into anarchy, with the radicals taking control of large parts of the fortified city.
Brutal civil war then erupted, with the Zealots and the fanatical Sicarii executing anyone advocating surrender, and by 68 CE the entire leadership of the southern revolt was assassinated in the infighting, some at the notorius Zealot Temple Siege.
After a lull in the military operations, owing to civil war and political turmoil in Rome, Titus besieged and destroyed the center of rebel resistance in Jerusalem in the year 70 CE, and defeated the remaining Jewish strongholds later on.
While the war in Judea was in progress, great events were occurring in Rome.
In the middle of 68 CE, the emperor Nero's increasingly erratic behaviour finally lost him all support for his position.
When the senate declared Nero an Enemy of the people, he fled Rome and committed suicide.
The newly installed emperor Galba was murdered after just a few months by Otho - a rival, triggering a civil war that came to be known as the Year of the Four Emperors.
In 69 CE, though previously uninvolved, the popular Vespasian was also hailed emperor by the legions under his command.
He decided, upon gaining further widespread support, to return to Rome to claim the throne from the usurper Vitellius, leaving his son Titus to finish the war in Judea.
With departure of Vespasian, who had opposed an open siege upon Jerusalem, fearing to lose many troops against the fortified city, Titus advanced Roman legions upon the capital of the rebellious province.
Conquering town after town, Titus quickly advanced on the hill country, while the outcry of the brutal suppression created an immense wave of Judean refugees, seeking shelter in fortified Jerusalem.
The Judean rebels avoided direct confrontation with the Roman troops, as multiple factions were mostly interested in their own control and survival, rather than Roman defeat.
Weakened by the brutal civil war within the city, the victorious Zealot factions could still field a significant number of troops to oppose an immediate Roman conquest of the capital.
The siege of Jerusalem, the fortified capital city of the province, quickly turned into a stalemate.
Unable to breach the city's defences, the Roman armies established a permanent camp just outside the city, digging a trench around the circumference of its walls and building a wall as high as the city walls themselves around Jerusalem.
Anyone caught in the trench, attempting to flee the city would be captured, crucified, and placed in lines on top of the dirt wall facing into Jerusalem.
The two Zealot leaders, John of Gischala and Simon Bar Giora, only ceased hostilities and joined forces to defend the city when the Romans began to construct ramparts for the siege.
Those attempting to escape the city were crucified, with as many as five hundred crucifixions occurring in a day.
During the infighting inside the city walls, a stockpiled supply of dry food was intentionally burned by the Sicarii to induce the defenders to fight against the siege, instead of negotiating peace;
Following a seven-month siege, Titus Flavius, Vespasian's son, eventually used the collapse of several of the city walls to breach Jerusalem.
During the final stages of the Roman attack, Zealots under Eleazar ben Simon still held the Temple, while the Sicarii, led by Simon Bar Giora, held the upper city.
All three walls of Jerusalem were eventually destroyed as well as the Temple and the citadels;
-the city was then put to the torch, with most survivors taken into slavery;
The Second Temple (the renovated Herod's Temple), one of the last fortified bastions of the rebellion, was destroyed on Tisha B'Av (29 or 30 July 70).
Tisha B'Av is an annual fast day in Judaism, named for the ninth day (Tisha) of the month of Av in the Hebrew calendar.
The fast commemorates the destruction of both the First Temple and Second Temple in Jerusalem, which occurred about 655 years apart, but on the same Hebrew calendar date.
John of Giscala surrendered at Agrippa II's fortress of Jotapata and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
The famous Arch of Titus in Rome depicts Roman legionaries carrying the Temple of Jerusalem's treasuries, including the Menorah, during Titus's triumphal procession in Rome.
Didn't the TESTIMONY of REVELATION reveal this "Little king" as SATAN, INSIDE THE ROMAN EMPIRE?
Another critical piece of evidence is the TESTIMONY of REVELATION 12:4;
4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and [to] his throne.
According to the TESTIMONY of "Documented Human History" King Herod of Judea SOUGHT TO KILL Jesus Christ AS AN INFANT.
The New Testament portrays him as a tyrant, into whose kingdom Jesus of Nazareth was born.
The slaying, shortly before his death, of the infants of Bethlehem was wholly consistent with the disarray into which he had fallen.
According to the TESTIMONY of MATTHEW 2:16, it was King Herod that SOUGHT TO KILL Jesus Christ as AN INFANT.
HOWEVER, according to the TESTIMONY of REVELATION 12:4, it was SATAN INSIDE THE ROMAN EMPIRE that sought to kill Jesus Christ as an infant;
NOT King Herod, ACTING UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF ROME, that issued the decree that ALL MALE INFANTS from 2 years and under were to BE SLAIN!
Is the TESTIMONY of DANIEL and REVELATION trying to show us that there is a POWER WORKING BEHIND THE SCENES?
Is the TESTIMONY of DANIEL and REVELATION trying to show us that IT IS SATAN PULLING THE STRINGS behind the physical appearance, power and authority of the Roman Empire?
8 Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven.
9 And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant [land].
10 And it waxed great, [even] to the host of heaven; and it cast down [some] of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them.
11 Yea, he magnified [himself] even to the prince of the host(JESUS CHRIST), and by him the daily [sacrifice] was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.
In the next post, the JURY will hear the testimony of what history knows as the Roman Empire.
Was there a religious PAGAN "Little King" that claimed to be the EQUAL OF JESUS CHRIST inside the Roman Empire?
(see "Prophetic Vocabulary")
Note; Can a Juror determine truth without hearing ALL of the evidence? It is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that one hear ALL of the evidence, beginning with Part #1 of these posts!
In PART #11, the JURY heard evidence that STRONGLY linked DANIEL'S "Little Horn / King" to the Roman Empire.
In this Post, the Jury will hear testimony that will continue to support the "CHAIN of EVIDENCE" that would point towards the Roman Empire and this "Little King".
In Part #6, the TESTIMONY of DANIEL introduced the JURY to the "Little Horn / King".
In Part #7, the JURY heard the TESTIMONY of DANIEL and REVELATION that;
-WHAT DANIEL CALLS the "Little Horn / King";
DANIEL 8
10 And it waxed great, [even] to the host of heaven; and it cast down [some] of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them.REVELATION identifies as SATAN;
REVELATION 12
3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
DANIEL 8 goes on to TESTIFY that this "Little King" WOULD TAKE AWAY THE JEWISH "DAILY SACRIFICE".
DANIEL 8 also TESTIFIES that this "Little King" WOULD DESTROY GOD'S SANCTUARY, which WAS the Jewish Temple located in Jerusalem.
DANIEL 8
11 Yea, he magnified [himself] even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily [sacrifice] was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.We will now call "Documented Human History" back to the Witness Stand, that the JURY might hear the testimony of the "SANCTUARY" (Jewish Temple) and the "Daily Sacrifice".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_in_Jerusalem
The Bible reports that the First Temple was built in 957 BCE by King Solomon (reigned c. 970-c. 930 BCE).
As the sole place of Jewish sacrifice, the Temple replaced the portable sanctuary constructed in the Sinai Desert under the auspices of Moses, as well as local sanctuaries, and altars in the hills.
The First Temple was totally destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BCE when they sacked the city.
According to the Book of Ezra, construction of the Second Temple was authorized by Cyrus the Great and began in 538 BCE, after the fall of the Babylonian Empire the year before.
During the Roman occupation of Judea, the Temple remained under control of the Jewish people.
It was later destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE during the Siege of Jerusalem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korban
THE END OF SACRIFICES
With the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans, the Jewish practice of offering korbanot stopped for all intents and purposes.
Despite subsequent intermittent periods of small Jewish groups offering the traditional sacrifices on the Temple Mount, the practice effectively ended.
According to the TESTIMONY of "Documented Human History" the Jewish "Daily Sacrifice" was taken away BY THE ROMAN EMPIRE, when they CAST DOWN the Temple IN JERUSALEM and it's Sacrificial Alter.
HOWEVER, it is the TESTIMONY of DANIEL, that the "Little King" was responsible for these acts, NOT the Leopard/Bear/Lion Beast.
The DEFENSE will now call "Documented Human History" to the witness stand, that the JURY may hear the TESTIMONY of the SANCTUARY cast down and the "daily sacrifice".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Jewish-Roman_War
The First Jewish–Roman War (66–73 CE), sometimes called The Great Revolt was the first of three major rebellions by the Jews of Judaea Province (Iudaea), against the Roman Empire.
The Great Revolt began in the year 66 CE, originated in the Greek and Jewish religious tensions, later escalated due to anti-taxation protests and attacks upon Roman citizens.
According to Josephus, the violence, which began at Caesarea in 66, was provoked by Greeks sacrificing birds in front of a local synagogue.
The Roman garrison did not intervene and the long-standing Hellenistic and Jewish religious tensions took a downward spiral.
In reaction, one of the Jewish Temple clerks Eliezar ben Hanania ceased prayers and sacrifices for the Roman Emperor at the Temple.
Protests over taxation joined the list of grievances and random attacks on Roman citizens and perceived 'traitors' occurred in Jerusalem.
The Jewish Temple was then breached by Roman troops at the order of Roman governor Gessius Florus, having seventeen talents removed from the treasury of the Temple, claiming the money was for the Emperor.
In response to this action, the city fell into unrest and some of the Jewish population began to openly mock Florus by passing a basket around to collect money as if Florus was poor.
Florus reacted to the unrest by sending soldiers into Jerusalem the next day to raid the city and arrest a number of the city leaders, who were later whipped and crucified, despite many of them being Roman citizens.
Shortly, outraged Judean nationalist factions took up arms and the Roman military garrison of Jerusalem was quickly overrun by rebels.
Fearing the worst, the pro-Roman king Agrippa II and his sister Berenice fled Jerusalem to Galilee.
Judean militias later moved upon Roman citizens of Judaea and pro-Roman officials, cleansing the country of any Roman symbols.
Cestius Gallus, the legate of Syria, brought the Syrian army, based on XII Fulminata, reinforced by auxiliary troops, to restore order and quell the revolt.
The legion, however, was ambushed and defeated by Jewish rebels at the Battle of Beth Horon, a result that shocked the Roman leadership.
The defeat of the Romans in Beth Horon is considered one of the worst military defeats of the Roman Empire by a rebel province throughout its history.
Some 6,000 Roman troops were killed and many more wounded in the battle with Legio XII Fulminata losing its aquila, as general Gallus abandoned his troops in disarray fleeing to Syria.
An aquila, or eagle, was the standard of a Roman legion.
It was carried by a legionary known as an aquilifer, or eagle-bearer.
One eagle was carried by each legion.
A lost standard was considered an extremely grave occurrence, and the Roman military often went to great lengths to both protect a standard and to recover it if lost;
- for example, see the aftermath of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, where the Romans spent decades attempting to recover the lost standards of three legions.
Emperor Nero appointed general Vespasian, instead of Gallus to crush the rebellion.
His second-in-command was to be his son Titus.
Vespasian was given four legions and in 67 CE invaded the Galilee, working his way towards Jerusalem and destroying the rebel forces on the way.
Vespasian, along with legions X Fretensis and V Macedonica, landed at Ptolemais in April 67.
There he was joined by his son Titus, who arrived from Alexandria at the head of Legio XV Apollinaris, as well as by the armies of various local allies including that of king Agrippa II.
Fielding more than 60,000 soldiers, Vespasian began operations by subjugating Galilee.
Many towns gave up without a fight, although others had to be taken by force.
By the year 68, Jewish resistance in the north had been crushed, and Vespasian made Caesarea Maritima his headquarters and methodically proceeded to cleanse the coastline of the country, avoiding direct confrontation with the rebels at Jerusalem.
The leaders of the collapsed Northern revolt, John of Giscala and Simon Bar Giora, managed to escape to Jerusalem, which was packed with militants of many factions and largely cut off by Roman forces.
Jerusalem quickly descended into anarchy, with the radicals taking control of large parts of the fortified city.
Brutal civil war then erupted, with the Zealots and the fanatical Sicarii executing anyone advocating surrender, and by 68 CE the entire leadership of the southern revolt was assassinated in the infighting, some at the notorius Zealot Temple Siege.
After a lull in the military operations, owing to civil war and political turmoil in Rome, Titus besieged and destroyed the center of rebel resistance in Jerusalem in the year 70 CE, and defeated the remaining Jewish strongholds later on.
While the war in Judea was in progress, great events were occurring in Rome.
In the middle of 68 CE, the emperor Nero's increasingly erratic behaviour finally lost him all support for his position.
When the senate declared Nero an Enemy of the people, he fled Rome and committed suicide.
The newly installed emperor Galba was murdered after just a few months by Otho - a rival, triggering a civil war that came to be known as the Year of the Four Emperors.
In 69 CE, though previously uninvolved, the popular Vespasian was also hailed emperor by the legions under his command.
He decided, upon gaining further widespread support, to return to Rome to claim the throne from the usurper Vitellius, leaving his son Titus to finish the war in Judea.
With departure of Vespasian, who had opposed an open siege upon Jerusalem, fearing to lose many troops against the fortified city, Titus advanced Roman legions upon the capital of the rebellious province.
Conquering town after town, Titus quickly advanced on the hill country, while the outcry of the brutal suppression created an immense wave of Judean refugees, seeking shelter in fortified Jerusalem.
The Judean rebels avoided direct confrontation with the Roman troops, as multiple factions were mostly interested in their own control and survival, rather than Roman defeat.
Weakened by the brutal civil war within the city, the victorious Zealot factions could still field a significant number of troops to oppose an immediate Roman conquest of the capital.
The siege of Jerusalem, the fortified capital city of the province, quickly turned into a stalemate.
Unable to breach the city's defences, the Roman armies established a permanent camp just outside the city, digging a trench around the circumference of its walls and building a wall as high as the city walls themselves around Jerusalem.
Anyone caught in the trench, attempting to flee the city would be captured, crucified, and placed in lines on top of the dirt wall facing into Jerusalem.
The two Zealot leaders, John of Gischala and Simon Bar Giora, only ceased hostilities and joined forces to defend the city when the Romans began to construct ramparts for the siege.
Those attempting to escape the city were crucified, with as many as five hundred crucifixions occurring in a day.
During the infighting inside the city walls, a stockpiled supply of dry food was intentionally burned by the Sicarii to induce the defenders to fight against the siege, instead of negotiating peace;
- as a result many city dwellers and soldiers died of starvation during the siege.
Following a seven-month siege, Titus Flavius, Vespasian's son, eventually used the collapse of several of the city walls to breach Jerusalem.
During the final stages of the Roman attack, Zealots under Eleazar ben Simon still held the Temple, while the Sicarii, led by Simon Bar Giora, held the upper city.
All three walls of Jerusalem were eventually destroyed as well as the Temple and the citadels;
-the city was then put to the torch, with most survivors taken into slavery;
- some of those overturned stones and their place of impact can still be seen.
The Second Temple (the renovated Herod's Temple), one of the last fortified bastions of the rebellion, was destroyed on Tisha B'Av (29 or 30 July 70).
Tisha B'Av is an annual fast day in Judaism, named for the ninth day (Tisha) of the month of Av in the Hebrew calendar.
The fast commemorates the destruction of both the First Temple and Second Temple in Jerusalem, which occurred about 655 years apart, but on the same Hebrew calendar date.
John of Giscala surrendered at Agrippa II's fortress of Jotapata and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
The famous Arch of Titus in Rome depicts Roman legionaries carrying the Temple of Jerusalem's treasuries, including the Menorah, during Titus's triumphal procession in Rome.
- Who or what is this "Little King", that it would receive the credit for these acts, rather than the Roman Empire it was inside of?
Didn't the TESTIMONY of REVELATION reveal this "Little king" as SATAN, INSIDE THE ROMAN EMPIRE?
Another critical piece of evidence is the TESTIMONY of REVELATION 12:4;
REVELATION 12
3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and [to] his throne.
According to the TESTIMONY of "Documented Human History" King Herod of Judea SOUGHT TO KILL Jesus Christ AS AN INFANT.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/263437/Herod
Herod, byname Herod the Great, Latin Herodes Magnus (born 73 bc—died March/April, 4 bc, Jericho, Judaea), Roman-appointed king of Judaea (37–4 bc).The New Testament portrays him as a tyrant, into whose kingdom Jesus of Nazareth was born.
The slaying, shortly before his death, of the infants of Bethlehem was wholly consistent with the disarray into which he had fallen.
According to the TESTIMONY of MATTHEW 2:16, it was King Herod that SOUGHT TO KILL Jesus Christ as AN INFANT.
MATTHEW 2
16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men.HOWEVER, according to the TESTIMONY of REVELATION 12:4, it was SATAN INSIDE THE ROMAN EMPIRE that sought to kill Jesus Christ as an infant;
NOT King Herod, ACTING UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF ROME, that issued the decree that ALL MALE INFANTS from 2 years and under were to BE SLAIN!
REVELATION 12
4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.Is the TESTIMONY of DANIEL and REVELATION trying to show us that there is a POWER WORKING BEHIND THE SCENES?
Is the TESTIMONY of DANIEL and REVELATION trying to show us that IT IS SATAN PULLING THE STRINGS behind the physical appearance, power and authority of the Roman Empire?
8 Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven.
9 And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant [land].
10 And it waxed great, [even] to the host of heaven; and it cast down [some] of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them.
11 Yea, he magnified [himself] even to the prince of the host(JESUS CHRIST), and by him the daily [sacrifice] was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.
In the next post, the JURY will hear the testimony of what history knows as the Roman Empire.
Was there a religious PAGAN "Little King" that claimed to be the EQUAL OF JESUS CHRIST inside the Roman Empire?
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