The Significance of Rome

The Roman Empire is one of the greatest contributors to the development of Western civilization. Due to its considerable spread, Rome was able to influence not only the West, but a large amount of the East as well. Rome’s influence covers religion, art, architecture, philosophy, government, and other areas, too.

When it comes to religion we know that the spread of Christianity wouldn’t have been very easy. The Roman Empire made Christianity its official religion and all its territories were to practice it, thus the most part of Europe adopted the religion. Even after the fall of the empire, these territories remained largely influenced and even governed by the Catholic Church for centuries to come. This eventually led to the christianization of the New World.

Just as religion, the preservation and spread of Greek philosophy and culture was possible. This also comprises Latin literature. Writers like Virgil, Ovid, Cicero, Seneca and others were continued to be read and studied deeply throughout the history of the Western world.

I believe that the key into making all of this proliferation and coservation possible is language. Latin is the foundation of five different languages (Romance languages) in the world, three of which are both spoken in Europe and the Americas. Other Germanic languages like English hold about 50% of Latin origin in their vocabulary. Additionally, Latin is the official language of the Roman Catholic Church. Obviously this opens an opportunity for a great number of people to learn different languages and therefore communicate with facility all around the world.

The idea of there being a Natural law and the propagation of it is owed to the Roman Empire. Natural law alludes to the concept of there being a single standard of justice that applies to all human beings disregarding race, wealth, age, sex, etcetera. For example, everyone has a right to private property and anyone who violates it is to be punished. We all have a right to life, to liberty, and property and those who do not follow these rights, without caring who they are, should be punished.

Finally, the Romans provided knowledge in art, architecture, and many inventions. Aqueducts, the Codex of the Bible, Roman arches, columns, domes, concrete and a great many other inventions were created and/or perfected by the Roman Empire. All of this is clearly seen and even used today.

Influencing Hesiod

I have been convinced that Hesiod is indeed a man that was influenced by the kingdom of darkness of the spiritual realm. Everything he writes is inspired by the governor of such kingdom or his workers, and I know I might be mocked at this, but truth is truth whether it is believed or not. It is indeed easier to believe he is a mere poet that writes myths and metaphors using the word “gods” in order to explain his worldview. Nevertheless, reasoning in this manner is ignoring the spiritual structures in his works that influence the mind of our spirits to deceive humanity from the truth.

His view of mankind’s past and future is basically about no hope or significance for human beings. Everything we do is either a reward or consequence of Zeus’ whims. He creates generations and destroys them however and whenever he desires. There have been, according to Hesiod, five generations of human races or types, a golden, a silver, a demi-god, a bronze, and an iron generation. Hesiod refers to today’s generation as the one of iron and the worst of all the five generations absolutely ending in evil. All past generations were better than this one, but still they all decayed to end in the iron age.

It is interesting that King Nebuchadnezzar had a vision where he saw a statue made of gold on the head, silver on the chest, bronze on the stomach and thighs, iron on the legs, and iron mixed with clay on the feet. Let’s check it: As for thee, O king, thy thoughts came into thy mind upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter: and he that revealeth secrets maketh known to thee what shall come to pass. But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but for their sakes that shall make known the interpretation to the king, and that thou mightest know the thoughts of thy heart. Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible. This image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay. Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. –Daniel 2:29-35 

In the Bible God is directly revealing to the Babylonian king the constitution of five kingdoms, including his and how all of them are destroyed by a rock. This was part of what was about to occur in the coming of Jesus Christ. Hesiod’s “false prophecy”, so to speak, is a lame copy or piracy of the truth by the father of all lies that tries to fool mankind and corrupt that which is eternal. Next is the interpretation of the dream: This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king. Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory. And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold. And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth. And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise. And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. For as much as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.  -Daniel 2:36-45

The five kingdoms are Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome. These kingdoms conform a whole spiritual structure or system that is ruled by darkness. In the natural they were a manifestation of spiritual entities that guard the form of government of the devil. Rome is the vulnerable kingdom, due to its tremendous expansion. A rule of war says that the more you expand, the more vulnerable you become. Rome fell because of its expansion. Notwithstanding, Jesus was not destroying the physical empire of Rome when he became flesh, or else Rome would have succumb to the rule of Jesus the instant He came to earth. As a matter of fact, Jesus was bringing down the whole structure built by the spiritual Babylon “mother of all prostitutes”. Unlike many protestant interpretations, Babylon is not the catholic church and it is not just a historic empire that ceased to exist. It is actually the spiritual city from which darkness, chaos, and confusion reign. In other words, it is the counter of the New Jerusalem.

The five kingdoms represent the whole system of iniquity and Jesus destroyed it on the cross to build and establish His Kingdom on the entire earth. Rome was and still is recognized through its judicial system or law (lex in latin). This lex ignored and ignores the true righteousness of God, which is through love and was manifested by the Holy Lamb. The righteousness of God is counter to the lex formed with iniquitous thoughts and it is the one that sustains the throne of God. Therefore, if you are capable to understand this, you will see that Hesiod is receiving actual revelation that is coming from spiritual entities that oppose to the Spirit of God and what He did when He became flesh. What these entities tried to do is deviate the Greeks from having faith, hope, and love which are given through the sacrifice of Jesus whom is the rock that destroyed the statue to become a mountain that filled the earth.

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The Light, the Life, and Eternity

The book of Genesis exposes the origin of all things. Before there were the heavens and the earth and all that is within them, there was Elohim (God). God formed the heavens and the earth and it says that the earth was shapeless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and the Spirit of God hovered above the waters. Then God said, “let there be light” and there was light. The instant God commanded light to be, He released his order (organization or government) to the whole universe and that opened the path for His good creation to be made. God’s government over all things began through the light and before the foundation of time, in eternity, in Him. (See Genesis 1:1-4)

God inhabits in a different dimension than man. He lives in eternity. His understanding of everything is not compatible to the reasoning of the current mankind. (See Isaiah 55:8) God created all things from His dwelling (eternity). In seven days He did all things, and when the days finished, God rested from everything He had created and made in the sanctified seventh day. It is interesting that the bible never mentions that the seventh day ended. I believe that the seventh day is eternal. The seventh day is the only holy day that was sanctified by God. He is in the seventh day, God is the seventh day.  When Jesus was on earth, all the works He made, most of them He did on the Sabbath day. Does that mean that Jesus, a Rabi and creator of the law, did not respect the law? No, it means Jesus is the Sabbath day.

You see, the bible says in John 14:10 that Jesus is in the Father and the Father is in Him. Jesus is God. Jesus is the Beginning and the End. (See Revelation 21:6) This signifies that in Jesus everything has already begun and everything has already ended. God does not inhabit in linear time. He dwells outside of time, He is eternity.

Light made all things, because Jesus or God is the Light. “This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.” (1 John 1:5)

The Light shines over the darkness and the darkness cannot prevail or comprehend it. The knowledge of Light is different than that one of the darkness that covers the deep. In Isaiah 60:2 it is mentioned that darkness cover the earth and darkness cannot understand God, Eternity, the Light, and everything that was made by the Him. The knowledge, reasoning, thought, etc. of this world is bound to darkness and thus it is lassoed to not comprehend Eternity.

The knowledge of the Light is life and the one of darkness is death. Life is not compatible to death and vice versa. God defeated death or darkness, through the light before everything else was made. Everything was made by the Light. (See John 1:3-5) Therefore, everything had the touch of life and eternity in them.

The spiritual realm is the realm of God and of Eternity. God is spirit and everything came out of Him. God is the sovereign above all. This ultimately means that the spiritual realm is the one that determines the physical realm. The entire universe came out of a Being who is spirit and lives in the realm of it, thus, the entire universe depends on the realm of the spirit, the reality of Elohim. The spirit realm is invisible. Even science says that we cannot see light, but we only see the reflection of it. This material world is the reflection of the spiritual one. If the sun, moon, and stars would all be gone, there would still be light. God is the Light.

And God formed man out of the dust of the ground and breathed into man’s nostrils the Breathe of Life. In the original scripture the word used to describe “Breathe of Life” is “Ruach.” Ruach in Hebrew has two meanings, “spirit” and “breathe”. Elohim breathed His Holy Spirit into man and this made man a living being. Something very interesting to note is that the book of Genesis says that God made man to His image and likeness. God is spirit, God is holy, God is light, God is life, God is eternal, God is divine, God is love, etc. God does not have a body made of flesh. With this we can come to the conclusion that the likeness in the image that God gave man was in the spirit of man through the unity of the Holy Spirit of God, or Breathe of God.

I believe that God also made all of the animals out of the ground, but it was man whom was the unique created being to have received the unity of the Holy Spirit. God placed the man and the woman in the East of the Garden of Eden. In the center of the garden there were two trees, the tree of the fruit of Life and the tree of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. God commanded man to not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil for on the day he did so, man would certainly die.

As mentioned previously, what made man receive the life was the entrance of the Ruach into the spirit of man. The Spirit of God was nurturing man with the life and causing man to be the image of God. Elohim gave man authority through a will to choose in whom or what to believe in and act according to that faith.

The two trees represented the knowledge of Light, which is and brings life, and the knowledge of Darkness, which is and brings death. Good AND evil are the way of thought of darkness. Life OR death are the way of thought of God. The thoughts of Elohim are of freedom and of peace. God’s thoughts are of life and not of death.

“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.” (Jeremiah 29:11. Notice that it says “of peace” and not “of good”.)

Adam and Eve had the way of thought of Elohim. Through the Ruach they viewed things the way God did. Adam had a similar creativity to God’s and he understood things as God did. In this manner, Adam knew every single characteristic that Elohim had placed in the animals and that is how he was able to name each one according to their specific traits.

Man had the fullness of the light in him while being in Eden with God. As long as man prevailed in obedience to God’s command and in belief of what God had warned the sanction would be, man would enjoy all the fruits of the Light and eternity. In God’s righteousness, man would have the Ruach of God and stay in the life with all the benefits that the Ruach gave man which were the knowledge of the Light, the Eternal Life, the image of God, etc.

That is when the adversary of God (Satan) came into play. The snake was in the Garden wanting to injure God’s heart by trying to convince man into separating from all that the Light is and die. The snake lied and told the woman that God had said that they could not eat from every single tree of the garden. The woman answered and corrected the snake in telling it that what God had really said was that they could eat from all the trees in the garden, except from the one that bared the Knowledge of Good and Evil. The snake lied again and told Eve that they could eat from the tree of good and evil, and when they did so, they would be like God. (Other translations, that are not the King James Version, refer to “gods”) (See Genesis 3:1-6)

What does this mean, “be like God or gods”? To fully understand this we have to see what took place with Satan, before he was the adversary of God. Satan was Lucifer, a beautiful angel made by God. At the instant the angel knew how beautiful he was and how good he was in the multitude of his contracts, he got filled with ego, pride, arrogance, and felt he could be like God and sit on His throne to rule over all, receive the praise, and create his own laws. Lucifer desired to be the sovereign above all. When God saw this, He cursed the angel and expelled him out of Elohim’s dwelling. (See Ezekiel 28-14-19)

This time Satan was in Eden using the same desire he had when he was in the heavens (to be God) to persuade Adam and Eve into disobeying God, losing faith in His word, and dying.

After speaking with the snake, Eve saw the tree and attracted her, so she ate from it and gave some of it to her husband. Man chose to believe the lie of the snake, instead of believing in God. Through his unbelief, man disobeyed God and allowed the knowledge of darkness to enter his life. Light and darkness, life and death, righteousness and evil, God and the devil, do not go together. Therefore, the moment man ate from good and evil, the life of God given by the Ruach of God left man. Eternity, left man, and from that time on, the days of man on earth would now be counted.

God cursed man and told him that he would return to dust. That through the hard work of his hands and the sweat of his brow, man would toil the ground in order to eat. As God had done with Lucifer, He did with man, and expelled them from Eden and took them apart from the tree of Life. However, God gave them a promise of redemption.

When God was cursing the woman, He said that she would step on the head of the snake and it would bruise her heel. This was a symbol of what took place with Jesus on the cross. Jesus stepped on the head of Satan and on the cross all the blood accumulated on his heel. God also made skin clothing for man, because through sin they knew they were naked. God sacrificed an animal foreshadowing what was to be done by Jesus Christ on earth; the light shining over darkness.

Man did die, because he left the immortality of eternity and eternity, by the Ruach, left man. Man prostituted himself and sold all he was for a mere satanic lie to sin. The root of sin, which is evil or iniquity, now was in the DNA of man. This DNA would now make man live for sin, which is darkness and which is death. This evil entered man’s DNA through the eating of the fruit if the knowledge of good and evil. For there to be redemption of the DNA, Jesus poured his own blood, and it is written that the LIFE of the body resides in the blood. (Leviticus 17:11)