David Custis Kimball - blog

Prophetic shocker: Romans didn’t destroy Temple
History, Human Affairs, Theology

Well that’s a big whew…. those future catholics and christians did NOT destroy the Temple.

But let’s go back and notice that Jesus made a huge impact on the provincial peoples. His miracles, his disciples convinced many, except a few die hard Monte Python addicts, especially the guy who was blind, now sees and really has a tough time begging.

The mideast is arid, harsh and the people unmerciful to those who don’t measure up. The taxes, the tribute to the Temple in terms of converting monies to something to sacrifice must have really been a much tougher sell after Jesus’s crucifixion and all the hulla balluh.

Today, Israel is mostly made up of Diasphoria or peoples who left Israel before Jesus made the scene. It was taught and the Gospel of Matthew, as well as Paul’s Epistle to the Hebrews satisfy to many that the Christian faith was not a required or forced issue on people, but a positive message, Good News, that attracted a great number of those actually ‘touched’ by it. They new a disciple, they met Jesus or a disciple, they met John the Baptist, Jesus’s cousin or heard of the cruel execution from fear and evil by the Roman Govt.

They knew too that the Romans put in authority of the Temple those that were compliant to pay the debt from its construction, which was considerable. It was a huge and amazing feat of architecture and civil engineering.

I can imagine, or project, or calculate the calculus of the increased difficulty of carrying the debt burden of the Temple, especially when so many rejected Judaism and embraced the new ‘Christian’ Good News … all were worthy and generosity and love thy neighbor and forgiveness were the keys. Also a biggie was that building castles here on earth and wealth are not so much the answer, because it doesn’t go with you as some of those harboring ‘Egyptian Pharaoh’ ideas would disagree and argue against the building of wealth.

Anyway, the Temple got to be a financial ‘Fannie Mae’ loan, where too few were asked too much to keep it going. Perhaps the Jewish leaders of the Temple were frustrated too. However, Rome was stretched, so had to hire cheap. They hired Arabs, thieves, and poor people that either lived off the desert or others who had to travel in caravans thru the desert.

Hey, they said, Let us get your tribute or we will make it impossible for them. Rome, asleep at the switch probably said ok, not realizing that destroying the temple was something the Arab tribes had always desired, and later codified and justified in the Koran. Today they think nothing of hiding weapons along with children in Mosques … daring the ‘do-gooder, forgiving, cheek-turning Christians’ to strike. We quiver or prosecute at the thought. Jews, disporia, so traumatized by having their temple razed, hesitate as well. Romans too were quite caught up in the magnificent Colesum, Aquaduct and many other buildings in Rome. But to Arab thieves who lived in the desert with minute rugs, horses that they milked, and tents that allowed every danger to enter, were so empowered by the destructive power that they wrought, that legend was born; if they could not possess it, they would destroy it. Welcome readers to a view of the genesis of hate, murder, destruction because of envy and abject cruelty. Welcome to the foundation of …. Islam.