Nero plucked his lyre as Rome burned and it later devastated its Economy.
The Fire was also led to Great Persecutions of Believers across the Empire
President Obama beats his drum in DC– It will later devastate US Economy
His drum beating will lead to Mid-East War and Persecution of All Believers!
Prophet Haggai Told Israel What Was Happening and to Consider Its Ways!
February 27, 2014
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Haggai 1:5-7 – Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways. [6] Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. [7] Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.
Haggai then warns the last day’s generation of what will happen to it before the Messiah’s Second Advent.
Haggai 2:6-9 – For thus saith the Lord of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; [7] And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts. [8] The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts.
The outer boundaries of Roman Government were beginning to crumble while its Emperor Nero plucked his lyre and the fires of rebellion were flaming in Rome and at his Empires distant borders!
The outer boundaries of American Democratic Influence is rapidly collapsing as Obama’s foreign affairs policies of diplomatic dialogue are being exposed as the ineffective policy of a fairy tale dream where he emerges as the great world hero. Obama’s homeland domestic policies and a complete overseas withdrawal of our outstanding legions of men and women legions, which will come home to collapse to see their war instruments. US legions of American heroes will be remembered as Heroic Warriors who won two Wars. Obama will be remembered as the President who withdrew US troops before strong military and democratic governments could be established in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I have taught for 40 years that when a foreign force that invades a country on the Asian Continent, with the intent to conquer it as a part of their country, it will not stand for a long period of time, but if it stays long enough to establish its own strong democracy and army, it will normally stand for a long period of time.
Many of the believers in Islamic countries will be martyred for it, particularly after Obama drops on his successor the horrific mess he has left behind, which will produce the beginning of the Tribulation Period which will end at the battle of Armageddon.
Revelation 17:16,17 – And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. [17] For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
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Excerpts from Wikipedia
Persecution under Nero, 64–68 AD
Main article: Great Fire of Rome
The first documented case of imperially supervised persecution of the Christians in the Roman Empire begins with Nero (37–68). In 64 AD, a great fire broke out in Rome, destroying portions of the city and economically devastating the Roman population. Nero himself was suspected as the arsonist by Suetonius,[9] claiming he played the lyre and sang the ‘Sack of Ilium’ during the fires. In his Annals, Tacitus (who claimed Nero was in Antium at the time of the fire’s outbreak), stated that “to get rid of the report, Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians [or Chrestians[10]] by the populace” (Tacit. Annals XV, see Tacitus on Jesus). Suetonius, later to the period, does not mention any persecution after the fire, but in a previous paragraph unrelated to the fire, mentions punishments inflicted on Christians, defined as men following a new and malefic superstition. Suetonius however does not specify the reasons for the punishment, he just listed the fact together with other abuses put down by Nero.[11]
Persecution from the 2nd century to Constantine
By the mid-2nd century, mobs could be found willing to throw stones at Christians, and they might be mobilized by rival sects. The Persecution in Lyon was preceded by mob violence, including assaults, robberies and stonings (Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History 5.1.7).
Further state persecutions were desultory until the 3rd century, though Tertullian’s Apologeticus of 197 was ostensibly written in defense of persecuted Christians and addressed to Roman governors.[12] The “edict of Septimius Severus” familiar in Christian history is doubted by some secular historians to have existed outside Christian martyrology.
The first documentable Empire-wide persecution took place under Maximinus Thrax, though only the clergy were sought out. It was not until Decius during the mid-century that a persecution of Christian laity across the Empire took place. Christian sources aver that a decree was issued requiring public sacrifice, a formality equivalent to a testimonial of allegiance to the Emperor and the established order. Decius authorized roving commissions visiting the cities and villages to supervise the execution of the sacrifices and to deliver written certificates to all citizens who performed them. Christians were often given opportunities to avoid further punishment by publicly offering sacrifices or burning incense to Roman gods, and were accused by the Romans of impiety when they refused. Refusal was punished by arrest, imprisonment, torture, and executions. Christians fled to safe havens in the countryside and some purchased their certificates, called libelli. Several councils held at Carthage debated the extent to which the community should accept these lapsed Christians.
Some early Christians sought out and welcomed martyrdom. Roman authorities tried hard to avoid Christians because they “goaded, chided, belittled and insulted the crowds until they demanded their death.”[13] According to Droge and Tabor, “in 185 the proconsul of Asia, Arrius Antoninus, was approached by a group of Christians demanding to be executed. The proconsul obliged some of them and then sent the rest away, saying that if they wanted to kill themselves there was plenty of rope available or cliffs they could jump off.”[14] Such seeking after death is found in Tertullian’s Scorpiace or in the letters of Saint Ignatius of Antioch but was certainly not the only view of martyrdom in the Christian church. Both Polycarp and Cyprian, bishops in Smyrna and Carthage respectively, attempted to avoid martyrdom.
Palestinian bishop Eusebius of Caesaraea described the mass murder of Christians by Jews during the Bar Kochba revolt.[15]
The Great Persecution
Main article: Diocletian Persecution
The Christian Martyrs’ Last Prayer, by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1883).
The persecutions culminated with Diocletian and Galerius at the end of the third and beginning of the 4th century. The Great Persecution is considered the largest. Beginning with a series of four edicts banning Christian practices and ordering the imprisonment of Christian clergy, the persecution intensified until all Christians in the empire were commanded to sacrifice to the gods or face immediate execution. Over 20,000 Christians are thought to have died during Diocletian’s reign. However, as Diocletian zealously persecuted Christians in the Eastern part of the empire, his co-emperors in the West did not follow the edicts and so Christians in Gaul, Spain, and Britannia were virtually unmolested.
This persecution lasted, until Constantine I came to power in 313 and legalized Christianity. It was not until Theodosius I in the later 4th century that Christianity would become the official religion of the Empire. Between these two events Julian II temporarily restored the traditional Roman religion and established broad religious tolerance renewing Pagan and Christian hostilities.
Martyrs were considered uniquely exemplary of the Christian faith, and few early saints were not also martyrs.
The New Catholic Encyclopedia states that “Ancient, medieval and early modern hagiographers were inclined to exaggerate the number of martyrs. Since the title of martyr is the highest title to which a Christian can aspire, this tendency is natural”. Estimates of Christians killed for religious reasons before the year 313 vary greatly, depending on the scholar quoted, from a high of almost 100,000 to a low of 10,000.
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