Caesar's Messiah: The Roman Conspiracy to Invent Jesus Page #3

ended the rebellion in Judea,

another rebellion soon broke

out in Alexandria, Egypt.

The Flavians were clear

that this was not the end

of the Jewish messianic movement.

They also recognized that

it was the Jewish literature

that was fueling this movement.

So, once they captured

the Jewish Scripture,

they had all of the

copies of it destroyed.

And that's why the Dead Sea Scrolls

had to have been buried in a cave,

because that was the only way they could

be safe from the Roman destruction.

There was not a single scrap of literature

found from the messianic movement,

until the Scrolls were discovered.

That's why they're such a treasure,

because they're the only real voice

of the messianic movement that we have.

And the real voice of the

Jews messianic movement,

according to our scholars,

was violent and militaristic,

not the pacifistic version

depicted in the Gospels.

War against Rome was a messianic war.

So, that's why I say that the

Scrolls were not only the literature

of the messianic movement in Palestine,

they were also the literature

of the war against Rome.

The Romans needed to

subdue the Jewish religion,

so they set about influencing

it and changing it.

They realize they can't destroy

the Jewish religion altogether.

That's not their objective. They

realized... they're sensible enough

to realize that they can't do that.

So, what you have to do is

try to create a type of

Judaism that is benign.

And it's exactly consorting with

the rise of the Flavian dynasty

is the arrival of two benign

forms of Jewish ideology.

RABBINIC JUDAISM CHRISTIANITY

It's during this period that a

new literature enters history,

which describes a peace loving,

turn the other cheek preaching

Jewish messiah named Jesus Christ.

But if the Flavians wrote the Gospels,

how could a Roman family know how

to write Jewish literature

that refers to Jewish prophecy?

The answer lies in the Flavians

collaborations with a number

of Jewish intellectuals, beginning with

their own court historian: Josephus.

Josephus arrives back

in Rome with Titus.

He becomes an adopted

member of the Flavian family.

An amazing turn of events

for the Jewish turncoat.

He becomes Flavius Josephus.

FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS

FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS

Josephus, at this time, begins

writing the history of the war.

And he records that Titus

gave him the Jewish Scripture.

Josephus' histories have

always been associated

with the origins of Christianity.

Time and again you can find

paralels with what Josephus writes

and what turns up in the Gospels.

It's a powerful evidence

of their true origin.

In reading the works of Josephus

side by side with the Gospels,

scholars have noticed

paralels between the two works.

It appears as though the history

of Josephus records events

that fulfill the prophecies

of the Old and New Testaments.

Early Christians

understood this connection.

In fact, when the Bible first began

to be printed in the middle ages,

it included the history of Josephus.

He was employed to write the

official history that we have.

The other histories from this period have

been destroyed ruthlessly by the Romans.

Josephus tells this in very

chilling passages how the Romans

exerted complete control of

the literature of this period.

(?) There were alternative histories of the Jewish ??? written

where the Romans rounded up the writers

of those histories and executed them.

They rounded up all the copies of

those histories and destroyed them.

That is to say they ruthlessly

wiped out any alternative history,

so that the only history we

have is written by Josephus.

And let's remember who Josephus was:

chief propagandist of

the Flavian dynasty.

He was very very successful.

He moved back to Rome.

He was given an apartment

in Emperor's own town house.

And he was appointed the chronic

clerk of the Roman-Jewish war

using Vespasian's own

diaries of the events.

Also in the pages of his history,

Josephus declares that the

Jewish messiah or Christ

is none other than Flavius

Vespasian and his dynastic family.

To put it succinctly, Josephus

says that there was a prophecy,

that a world ruler would

come out of Palestine.

The Jews thought this

applied to one of their own.

But they were wrong in

their interpretations.

He used the most cinical interpretation.

He applied it to the rise of

the Roman Emperor in Palestine.

Josephus recorded that the messianic

prophecies foresaw not a Jew,

but Vespasian and his dynasty.

In fact, all of the

Flavian historians recorded

that the Flavian Caesar was the Christ.

It was important to the Flavians

that they'd be seen as the Christ,

as divine and godlike. And

this was not mere vanity.

The Julio-Claudians before them had

already stablished that presenting

themselves as gods was a powerful

tool in controlling their subjects.

When the Flavians took over the throne,

they inherited an enormous burocracy

that was already in place:

the Imperial Cult.

Which was dedicated to promoting

the idea of Caesar as a god.

ROMAN IMPERIAL CUL Another part of the puzzle

is the Roman Imperial Cult.

Why is it important?

Well, because it coincides

with that same period of time

as the emergence of the Christ cult.

You had a whole social community.

The whole social structure

of these conquered territories

was governed by the Imperial Cult.

If you wanted to succeed, the key social

community to join was the Imperial Cult

because that's where all

the movers and shakers were.

This idea of the Emperor

becoming an object of worship

was well stablished in the Roman system

before Vespasian and Titus came along.

It was prevalent in all major

centres. It had its own priesthood.

There was a ceremony,

an annual celebration,

annual games for the Imperial cult.

Now, it had many characteristics which

would later color the Christian cult.

(?) It grew in the same centres ???

claim that were later transfered to Christ.

The Julio-Claudians had claimed

that they were of divine descents

and that they were therefore legitimate.

The power base was the Roman

aristocracy, the Roman nobility.

All of that colapsed

into this power vacuum.

Vespasian was declared Emperor

by the troops, by the Roman army.

So, effectively,

it was a military coup.

With the change of dynasty,

they have to create a whole mythology

to legitimize that dynasty.

At the same time,

they're creating a whole mythology

to counter Jewish messianism.

Somewhere along the line,

those two things get mixed together.

When Vespasian died, Titus began the

process of having his father deified.

This is a complicated process

because only the Roman Senate

can bestow on an individual

the title of deist or god.

Titus came to the Senate and presented

evidence that the life of his father

had been divine. Certainly, this would

have included the military campaign

that the Flavians waged through Judea.

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