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Saturday 19 March 2016

Rome in the First Century AD

Rome 50AD. Physically not much different to how it is today. Bustling. Chariots then and cars now. Magnificent buildings. Many streets and houses. Looking out from there towards the Eastern Mediterranean shores where decades previously and still in this time much trouble had ocurred and decades before extraordinary events had ocurred. Into this city come two men arriving in separate circumstances but perhaps living there at the same time in the next decades after 50AD and these two witnessed back there in the Eastmost lands around the Mediterranean the same extraordinary - most extraordinary - man. Not just man but Son of Man. They witnessed what He did like the changing of water into wine, the giving of sight to the blind and the blinding by heavenly glory of the violent opponent on the Damascus Road. These two men each had aliases having had changed names after being changed by this amazing Son of Man. One became known as Peter (Rock) and the other became known by his own choice as Paul (Small). This Rome was a city of immense reutation for tyranny but this Son of Man is still alive having been slain by the army of this city in response to demands by leaders out there in the Eastern Mediterranean who wanted to put to death the Son of Man whose Father in Heaven had first formed their nation centuries earlier. The East was the forum for a visible earthly contest between a murdeous powerful ancient spirit called Satan because of his constant accusations against saints and the heir to the throne of Glory over the entire Universe known as Son of Man among Heavenly spirits but Jesus there in 50AD. Jesus of Nazareth called The Christ. Now this city of Rome itself had crows coming home to roost as it too became unwitting host to the continued battle between Satan and his human children of lying and murder on one hand and Jesus and His saints on the other as Peter and Paul too would be put to death and it is said their skulls are kept in a cathedral there to this very day. Jesus came alive as death cannot hold Him who rules over death and has the keys of death and the places of the dead but one day this same Jesus who was crucified by Roman leaders at the demand of Jewish leaders (predecessors of the Beast and the Babylon the Great of today and tomorrow) will soon return and bring back to life this same Peter and Paul together with those saints executed like they were and other saints set apart to rule with Christ a thousand years before Christ Jesus returns all His Kingdom to His Father, The God.