End Times Bible Prophecy: It’s Not What They Told You by Brian Godawa

Author:Brian Godawa [Godawa, Brian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781942858317
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Publisher: Embedded Pictures Publishing
Published: 2017-02-20T06:00:00+00:00

The next thing Jesus predicted was wars and rumors of wars.

Matthew 24:6–7

And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.

This had always been one of the more troubling predictions to me when I thought we were on the verge of the rapture in my lifetime. Why? Because this is another one of those prophecies that is so generic it could be applied to any time period of history. Is that really a prophecy? If I said to you that Jesus was coming soon because look at how there are so many wars and rumors of wars around us, you would laugh at me. This is no different than any other time period in history.

Except one: the first century time period of Pax Romana.

When I found out more about the Roman empire of that time period, this prophecy began to stand out with a sharper clarity. The term Pax Romana is Latin for “the peace of Rome.” By the time of Augustus in 27 B.C., just before Christ, Rome had conquered the known world of that time and therefore had subjugated all the warring nations under its authority. This effectively stopped wars and ushered in an unprecedented time of peace. Yes, imperial peace, which would not to our modern understanding appear to be very just or peaceful. But in their eyes it would be. It was in this context of the peace of Rome that the New Testament prophecy of wars and rumors of wars would make more sense than during our own time period. This was also the time of the Jewish uprising that led to war as well.

A famous Roman historian wrote of this time period, about A.D. 69, where Pax Romana broke down in fulfillment of Jesus’ words.

Tacitus, Histories 1.2

(January - March, A.D. 69) The history on which I am entering is that of a period rich in disasters, terrible with battles, torn by civil struggles, horrible even in peace. Four emperors fell by the sword; there were three civil wars, more foreign wars, and often both at the same time. There was success in the East, misfortune in the West. Illyricum was disturbed, the Gallic provinces wavering, Britain subdued and immediately let go. The Sarmatae and Suebi rose against us; the Dacians won fame by defeats inflicted and suffered; even the Parthians were almost roused to arms through the trickery of a pretended Nero. Moreover, Italy was distressed by disasters unknown before or returning after the lapse of ages. Cities on the rich fertile shores of Campania were swallowed up or overwhelmed; Rome was devastated by conflagrations, in which her most ancient shrines were consumed and the very Capitol fired by citizens’ hands. Sacred rites were defiled; there were adulteries in high places. The sea was filled with exiles, its cliffs made foul with the bodies of the dead.

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