As I understand Israel the Land (ERETZ) at the time of Jesus there were two occupations. The Roman occupation came in about fifty years before Jesus was born and was relatively unobtrusive in nature until Jesus was born. The other Occupation had been around since about five-hundred BC and a team of Masons (rich merchants trained in the esoteric of biblical prophecy - Daniel BELTESHAZZAR was "touched" with divine insights as the Chieftain of the Astrologers and Sorcerers) Visited King Archelaus HEROD and informed him that the bastard son rejected two years earlier was destined to make a mark in human history. He went berserk and committed a broad infanticide order bringing distressed parents to turn to Rome and things became ugly, exiling Archelaus to live like a mountain man east of the Jordan River.
The Books of Ezra and Nehemiah tell the tale of how Nebuchadnezzar captured the mental mind of the Temple Mount, after acquiring the Mind of the Intellectual and Spiritual Elite with seventy years of captivity in Babylon. Interestingly this sets the stage for a foundational document in my endeavors to comprehend Truth more:
This article by Marcus Eli RAVAGE sets a stage too - from a 1928 Jew, one keeping his perspective as a Babylonian Magi speaking from the Temple Mount under Captivity helps make my point.
I think that the Promise of Zion was to recapture the governmental ideals and functionality of the Kingdom of David. The dream is found in the lamenting under slavery and persecution of religious priests imposing intercession upon a people. I get glimpses but find that same business plan obscures my delivery.
Here is one example demonstration on my journey. Ronald Dean called from the bank a week after this process was implemented and they wanted him to sign a Waiver of Indemnity on US Bank before they would allow him access to his money, that had all been refunded. We laughed (key). He instead demanded they write letters of apology to the recipients of rubber checks victimized by the unlawful seizure.
I am hoping somebody may get my point. Nebuchadnezzar's capture of the mind symbolizes the real spiritual stultification and stagnation.
P.S. Ronald Dean was and may still be a rural non-501(C)(3) pastor.
