26 June 2024
When Caesar released Paul from the Sanhedrin's complaint against him, we are pretty sure the apostle went to Spain. If you can absorb the Hebrew thinking on prophecy, then you would understand that this represents the farthest reach of the nations mentioned in the Tower of Babel narrative. Paul was simply trying to fill up the Great Commission at least symbolically by making sure the gospel message went to far corners of those first few nations named in order to counter the rebellious elohim council members.
We have some limited indications that someone did plant some churches in Roman Spain during that time frame. However, Paul felt driven to head back to Ephesus to help Timothy establish that city as the new center of Christian religion. We believe he got as far as Troas up the coast from Ephesus and spent time with Timothy, and then was arrested there again.
It's likely Paul had no fleshly way of knowing what Nero was plotting in Rome. The emperor set fire to some areas he wanted to rebuild differently and it was politically convenient to blame Christians for it. But even if Paul did hear, perhaps through leaks from his contacts in the imperial palace, the problem was that Paul's first trial there a few years before established him in the minds of Roman officials as the most prominent leader of Christian religion within easy reach.
He was a juicy target for prosecution, a big propaganda win. We can be sure God knew, of course, and can therefore be presumed willing to let Paul's life end in that time and setting. Peter was executed a short time later on similar grounds. It was time for John to pick up the reins when he arrived in Ephesus. Somehow, the vigor of Roman persecution declined just a bit so that John survived, if under exile for a while. His confinement on Patmos left him able to continue leading the churches in Ephesus.
But in his vision there on Patmos, John saw the passing of the Hebrew emphasis in Christian religion. His own Gentile disciples were losing their grip on it, and it seemed there was nothing he could do. Part of the John's final writings were a sad note on this.
It's not as if God was caught off guard. He tolerated the rise of Western Civilization. It is abundantly clear the West is flatly hostile to everything He revealed, but there must have been some strategic purpose in letting that cancer grow. Given what we know of His priorities revealed up to that time, we can be sure it was all part of His demonstration, His proof against Satan and the rebellious elohim councilors.
That means letting Satan and his allies have enough rope to hang themselves. Keep in mind that in the worst case, the Elect lose only their earthly covenant inheritance by being misled about the nature of the Kingdom of Heaven. Still, God has been feeding back into believers' lives some of those blessings just for His own name's sake.
I cannot pretend to understand, much less discuss, what He is doing by resurrecting the Hebraic outlook now, but He is surely doing that. If nothing else, it is because the vacuity of western culture is leaving room for it. Before our very eyes, we see the West collapsing, a hollow and rotting mess. We do this because we can, against the collapse of everything that churchianity has been for some decades. However, I'm quite certain there's more to it that we simply cannot grasp, as God continues to present His case against Satan and his allies.
What I do understand is the dire necessity of seizing this opportunity to stake our claim and occupy the territory, as it were. It's our mission to redevelop the lore that has been lost, to breathe life back into the Hebraic teaching of the gospel message.
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