God's Image. Life

Before ELIMINATING Carthage, Rome learned from Carthage’s fleet how to efficiently build mass numbers of seafaring vessels.

With these ships Rome conquered the Mediterranean, then Greece. Alexander the Great, conquered Israel and Judah. But it opened a path for the Romans to waltz in, build aquifers, theatres, and claim taxes.

‘Greece’, if you could read the books of Maccabees, slaughtered hundreds-of-thousands of Israelites and Levites, outlawing any mention of the Hebrew Gods, punishable by death. There are stories of faithful families standing up for their God, and so being burned alive or otherwise executed.

It was during this dark age that Hanukkah became known as a silent protest of solidarity between Jews. They wrote then practiced the traditions, would light a menorah and place it in a window or doorstep, visible from the street.

Judah, the largest Israelite tribe, was stubborn and strong. They survived the Maccabean wars, but were subjugated to Rome. They kept their faith of worshipping their true God and studying Torah and Tanakh. Judah refused to worship the Roman emperor, and so were a constant headache to their oppressors.

You see, Rome’s favorite way of controlling people was to manipulate them to worship their Caesar as God. The Roman Senate literally diefied their emperors and called them Gods. It was largely an effective method for the masses of commoners who could not read at all, but they attended Roman theatre to be entertained and learn Roman propaganda.

At first they blamed Greece for the occupation of the tribe of Judah, Israel and Levi were pretty much completely wiped out, usually Rome would “wash their hands” of dirty dealing and claim innocence. But, the Judean occupation was Roman all along.

In such a manner, Pilate “washed his hands” and claimed to be innocent of King Yeshua’s torture and public death.

Yet Rome, proclaimed so innocent, continued to manipulate world history with their manufactured narrative, Rome stole the Hebrew scriptures, destroyed the Hebrew Holy God’s Temple, crucified over 50,000 MORE Jews, slaughtered millions, and exiled the rest.

How innocent can washing one’s hands make a “holy” empire?

Then they redesigned the story of Yeshua, a Judean King who led a revolt against them, and rewrote it, naming him a peaceful god who taught people to pay their taxes.

Rome learned that Europeans were easier to control by enforcing worship of a Sacrificial Lamb, as opposed to enforcing worship of a Roman emperor.

They used this knowledge to COMPLETELY REBRAND their system of government. They enforced a new Calendar (BC/AD) empire-wide, Rome became the Holy Roman Empire, then Vatican, incorporating the Roman Catholic Church.

They then continued to conquer Europe, and, just like Greece, gave them fleets and encouraged them to conquer new lands overseas. These forward-facing nations, Spain, Portugal, France, Britain, and Holland, happily took responsibility for colonization, (no Italian conquests overseas?) while Roman Catholic nuns and priests slipped in behind them to build schools, hospitals, vie for tithes of the colonists, and “convert” the “savages”.

(Interesting to note that Christopher Columbus, leader of the fleet of Spanish galleons that “discovered” America, previously known as Turtle Island, was Italian, he was sent from Italy.)

The Holy Roman Empire’s, or Rome’s plans for world domination have worked for over 2200 years and are still at it today, using their status as moral leaders to teach humankind right from wrong.

Until next time,

Enlillie