Now I've gone over all of this
before but perhaps we can utilize some other examples from history to make this
a bit more poignant.
In the late 2nd
Century BC the Jugurthine War broke out in North Africa leading Rome to
intervene. As far as Rome was concerned this uprising, this rejection of the
Roman geopolitical paradigm, constituted a threat to Rome's interest and thus
they sent an army to deal with Jugurtha.
There were Jews living in Italy
during the late Roman Republic. What was the Jewish response to Jugurtha? What
was the response of the Old Covenant Diaspora? Certainly our situation in the
New Testament is analogous. We too live in an empire. What were their
'worldview' teachers saying about what the 'Jewish' response should be... for
Rome to deal with Jugurtha?
