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“Have you checked out Paul Kengor’s ‘The Devil and Karl Marx’ ?
If you haven’t you need to because i sense you would appreciate it.”

Oh yes. He came to my attention last year. He won’t finger Marx as a Satanist, but Marx was indeed a Satanist, obviously. Richard Wurmbrand identified Marx and his followers as Satanists back in 1976…

Google: marx and satan Richard Wurmbrand archive

“Yeah, I just watched I think it’s titled ‘Tortured for Christ’ a couple weeks ago.”

Speaking of Christ, I made a huge discovery on that subject several years back (I’m a political scientist, so it was easy for me to catch the discovery), which must be really upsetting to Satanists when they thought they had won:

THE DEFT POLITICAL MANEUVERINGS OF JESUS AND JEWISH OFFICIALS UNDER A PRECARIOUS ROMAN SHADOW

“For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open. Therefore consider carefully how you listen. Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what they think they have will be taken from them.”

“Some of the people of Jerusalem therefore said, “Is not this the man whom they seek to kill? And here he is, speaking openly, and they say nothing to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Christ?”

The existence of a Roman occupation throughout the Levant circa 30 AD precluded Jewish authorities in Judea and Galilee-Perea openly accepting Jesus as the Messiah. If Jesus was realized to be the Messiah, the Jewish authorities in Judea and Galilee would have played a game of feigned hostility towards Jesus, thereby placating an always watchful Rome that dealt swiftly with even perceived threats to Roman rule. We see then that the Gospels’ narrative of Jewish officialdom hostility towards Jesus’ ministry is behavior one would expect from those officials. Is there, then, within the Gospels themselves evidence of Jewish officialdom’s acceptance and knowledge of Jesus’ claim to the Messiah? In fact, there’s direct evidence.

When Jesus was in Jerusalem on His first mission there at the beginning of His ministry, the Pharisee named Nicodemus paid Jesus a discreet visit at night informing Jesus that the Temple leaders knew Jesus was sent from God. Nicodemus admits, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with Him.”

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The miracle that would have clearly directed the Sanhedrin’s attention to Jesus’ divine nature while He cleared the Temple courtyards of man and beast, would be the immobilization of the Roman garrison located within the adjacent Antonia Fortress and the immobilization of Roman soldiers lining the Temple’s four cloisters. As Josephus informs us:

“But on the corner, where it [Antonia Fortress] joined to the two cloisters of the temple, it had passages down to them both: through which the guards (for there always lay in this tower a Roman legion) went several ways among the cloisters, with their arms, on the Jewish festivals; in order to watch the people, that they might not there attempt to make any innovations.”

…and…

“Now while the Jewish affairs were under the administration of Cumanus, there happened a great tumult at the city of Jerusalem, and many of the Jews perished therein. But I shall first explain the occasion whence it was derived. When that feast, which is called the Passover, was at hand, at which time our custom is to use unleavened bread, and a great multitude was gathered together, from all parts to that feast, Cumanus was afraid lest some attempt of innovation should then be made by them; so he ordered that one regiment of the army should take their arms, and stand in the temple cloisters, to repress any attempts of innovation, if perchance any such should begin: and this was no more than what the former procurators of Judea did at such festivals.”

It should be stressed, and as Josephus informs us, the Temple complex was utilized as Rome’s fortress for the defense of Jerusalem:

“For the temple was a fortress, that guarded the city; as was the tower of Antonia a guard to the temple. And in that tower were the guards of those three.”

One of the reasons Rome had a military presence at the Temple was to control outbursts of religious zeal that could lead to riots/rebellion. In the western wall was the main gate named the Gate of Coponius after the first procurator; it was decorated with the golden eagle as a sign that the Temple had been placed under the protection of Rome. The Roman garrison’s inaction in arresting Jesus and bringing Jesus before Pilate for adjudication stemming from the melee1 Jesus caused in the Temple courtyards convinced the Sanhedrin of Jesus’ divine origins; the signs Jesus performed in Jerusalem after the clearing of the Temple could have been clever tricks for all the Sanhedrin knew, but the immobilization of the Roman garrison in the Antonia Fortress could not be explained away.

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When Jesus immobilized the Roman garrison in the Antonia Fortress, He also had to immobilize those in the Temple who were about to revolt against Rome. You see, when those present inside the Temple witnessed the immobilization of the Roman garrison they would have known immediately that Jesus was the Messiah and therefore would have revolted there and then against Rome but they too were immobilized. The Roman garrison at the Antonia Fortress was situated within that fortress to stamp out the periodic religious themed revolts/rebellions that took place at the Temple, so when the crowd in the Temple witnessed Jesus’ ‘violent’ actions and the Roman refusal to intervene and stop Jesus, the crowd would have revolted, but they couldn’t. This second immobilization – immobilization of the Jewish revolt within the Temple upon witnessing the conspicuous absence of Roman soldiers in the courtyards – would have been one of the “signs” Nicodemus was referring to when he told Jesus “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with Him.”

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As Jesus cleared the Temple courtyards, outside the Temple gates, and throughout Jerusalem, Jews are rioting, believing Rome is preventing them from entering the Temple – naturally no one who hadn’t been evicted by Jesus from the Temple courtyards would believe that one Jewish lunatic had cleared the Temple courtyards of both man and beast. These Jews new on the scene are witnessing Roman patrols outside the Temple walls similarly immobilized as the Roman soldiers are within the Antonia Fortress, proving that the first Jewish revolt would have taken place at this time, not in 66 AD, if it weren’t for a third immobilization, an immobilization of the Jews in Jerusalem.

“Reminds me of when they were going to stone Him, yet He walked right through the midst of them because it wasn’t His time yet.”

That incident was in Galilee and before He commenced His mission, which commenced when He took over the Temple complex from the Romans, but, yes, no harm could come to Him, of course, which was clearly discernable to the Sanhedrin when they confronted Jesus in the Temple as He took over the complex from the shocked Romans.

Then later, who marches up to Jesus in Galilee to ask for a favor? A Roman centurion, because now Roman soldiers everywhere know who Jesus is. In fact, Roman soldiers are paying very close attention to Jesus and His disciples, as ordered by Emperor Tiberius. We know that Tiberius initiated such an order because ten Roman governors of Judea (before the Jewish revolt of 66AD) refused to harm Jesus’ disciples as long as they were in Judea, thereby proving Imperial direction that Judea was a safe haven for the Nazarenes.*
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* The immobilization of the Roman guard for three years while Jesus went about with His disciples performing what Rome termed agitation/insurrection is indeed empirical proof of Jesus’ divinity. Jesus and disciples were the only ones Roman governors in Judea refused to crucify for agitation. That would be ten governors of Judea between 30 AD and the Jewish revolt of 66 AD:

Pontius Pilate 26–36 Roman Prefect
Marcellus 36–37 Roman Prefect
Marullus 37–41 Roman Prefect
Cuspius Fadus 44–46 Roman Procurator
Tiberius Julius Alexander 46–48 Roman Procurator

(a Jewish Equestrian selected by Titus to be his Executive Officer in the retaking of Judea and Jerusalem in 68AD)

Ventidius Cumanus 48–52 Roman Procurator
Marcus Antonius Felix 52–60 Roman Procurator
Porcius Festus 60–62 Roman Procurator
Lucceius Albinus 62–64 Roman Procurator
Gessius Florus 64–66 Roman Procurator

…proving that the ‘hands off Jesus and disciples policy in Judea’ was Imperial policy, not the inexplicable policies of ten Roman governors.

“You know of a good resource you would recommend on the subject?”

All these discoveries were made by me the last five years or so.

However, do read The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom, a 2013 book by Candida Moss, a professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of Notre Dame. In her book, Moss advances a thesis that:

1. The traditional idea of the “Age of Martyrdom”, when Christians suffered persecution from the Roman authorities and lived in fear of being thrown to the lions, is largely fictional.[1]
2. There was never sustained, targeted persecution of Christians by Imperial Roman authorities.[1]
3. Official persecution of Christians by order of the Roman Emperor lasted for at most twelve years of the first three hundred of the Church’s history.[2]
4. Most of the stories of individual martyrs are pure invention,
5. Even the oldest and most historically accurate stories of martyrs and their sufferings have been altered and re-written by later editors, so that it is impossible to know for sure what any of the martyrs actually thought, did or said.[3][1]

Moss’ work complements mine. Her work directs our attention to Rome’s odd behavior towards Christianity. For example, during this age of ‘persecution’, Christians were Senators, Equestrians and wealthy entrepreneurs. They built churches too during this period. Christians weren’t hiding.

Christians in the early period of their existence refused to take part in the Cult of Emperor, where one worships the Emperor and prays for the safety of the Empire. However, Christians could have solicited an exemption, as did the Jews, whereby one offers a sacrifice for the wellbeing of the Emperor and Empire. This made Christians a suspect sect to many Roman gentiles. However, there were no persistent persecutions of Christians. There were short-termed and regional ‘prosecutions’ of Christians who violated Roman customs and traditions; most governors wanted nothing to do with Christians even when – a true story – Christians marched up to a governor’s home demanding they be martyred! In that particular incident from Asia (today’s Turkey), the governor told the Christian mob to jump off the nearby cliffs!

Now for the backstory to that incident in Asia that even Professor Moss doesn’t notice:

How did a Christian mob get to march any distance before being intercepted by Roman auxiliary soldiers, let alone get to the governor’s residence’s door? Obviously governors were instructed by the current Emperor to exercise ‘patience’ with annoying Christians [who behaved rudely towards Roman gentiles, contrary to the teachings of Jesus].