Dé jà vu all over again
Judas Maccabeus sent envoys to Rome around 161 BCE to form a treaty with the Roman Republic. This was the first recorded agreement between the two parties. The Maccabees were Jewish rebels who fought against the Seleucid Empire in the second century BCE.
Aristobulus II (supported by the Pharisees) and Hyrcanus II (Sadducees), over the Hasmonean Jewish crown. Both brothers invited Rome to come in and help the other and sent them gold to do so. The war began in 65 BCE and ended in 63 BCE with the intervention of the Roman Republic.
I am witnessing Wall Street's euphoria regarding potential financial gains amid current political circumstances. Active market participants who own stocks have likely reaped substantial benefits recently.
While I do not condemn this and actually endorse investment, my experience working in Corporate through the Dot Com bubble burst and the Global Financial Crisis has taught me caution. Instead of relying solely on financial gains, consider placing your hope in a higher authority.
Rev. What are your thoughts about the violence at the Trump rally? (Violence is like the common cold; unless you live in a hermetically sealed clean room, anyone can spread it and catch it!)
If you want to know what type a Country the U.S can become? Ask my mom a 93 year old black women from the South. If you don't want to become that demographic solve problems dont push your ideologies.
Pay attention to this event: a child of immigrants doing this to immigrants. Talking about a thoroughly neo-colonized mentality https://t.co/h26HxFIUCu
Our modern term “religion “ comes from the Latin word religion or the verb religare, meaning to bind. I am bound to Jesus and humanity. I love both. It makes religion, not such a bad word eh?
Recent events in the Levant and ongoing conflicts in this world demonstrate the inability of humanity to govern ourselves with justice, empathy, and equality. Without intervention from a greater authority, we will soon destroy ourselves and this planet. Maranatha!