53braZ in Jerusalem another holy man named Yesjoea
Son of Chanan/Ananias suddenly appeared, prophesying the DESTRUCTION OF THE CITY & the imminent return of the messiah.
Another man, a mysterious Jewish sorcerer called "the Aegyptian," declared himself King of the Jews and gathered thousands of his followers on the Mount of Olives, where he vowed that, like Yoshua @ Yericho, he would bring the walls of Yerushalayim tumbling down at HÌS command? The crowd was massacred by Roman troops, though, as far as anyone knows, the Egyptian escaped!
Felix's bumbling reaction to these events ultimately led to his sacking and replacement with another man, Porcius Festus. But Festus proved no better in dealing with the restive Jewish population, either in the countryside, where the number of prophets and messiahs gathering followers & preaching liberation from Rome was growing out of control, or in Jerusalem, where the Sicarii buoyed by their success in killing the high priest Yonathan, were now murdering & pillaging at will! So overwhelmed was Festus by this stress of his position that he now died very soon after taking the office! He was followed by Lucceius Albinus, a notorious degenerate, swindler, and incompetent who spent his two years in Yerushalayim especially enriching himself by plundering the wealth of the populace! After Albinus came Gessius Florus, whose brief turbulent tenure was remembered because first it made the years under Albinus seem positively peaceful in comparison & second, he would be the last Roman governor Yerushalayim would know! It was now 64 CE/vC.: in two years' time the anger, resentment, and messianic zeal that had been steadily building throughout the land would erupt into a full-scale "Revolt against ROME"! Cumanus, Felix, Festus, Albinus, Florus ~ each of these governors contributed through his malfeasance to the "Jewish UPRISING"! Rome itself was thus to blame for its mismanagement & severe overtaxation of the beleaguered population! Certainly the "Jewish ARISTOCRACY", with their incessant conflicts and their sycophantic efforts to gain power and influence by bribing "Roman Officials", shared responsibility for that deteriorating 'social order'!
No doubt the "TEMPLE Leadership" played a role in fostering the widespread sense of injustice and crushing poverty that had left SO MANY Jews with no choice but to turn to violence?
Add to all this the seizure of private lands, the high levels of unemployment, the displacement and forced urbanization of the peasantry, and the drought and famine that devastated the Judean and Galilean countryside, & it was only a matter of time before the fires of rebellion would engulf the whole of Palestine: it seemed that the entire 'Jewish Nation' was ready to erupt into a open REVOLT at the slightest provocation ~ which Florus was foolish enough to provide.
Another man, a mysterious Jewish sorcerer called "the Aegyptian," declared himself King of the Jews and gathered thousands of his followers on the Mount of Olives, where he vowed that, like Yoshua @ Yericho, he would bring the walls of Yerushalayim tumbling down at HÌS command? The crowd was massacred by Roman troops, though, as far as anyone knows, the Egyptian escaped!
Felix's bumbling reaction to these events ultimately led to his sacking and replacement with another man, Porcius Festus. But Festus proved no better in dealing with the restive Jewish population, either in the countryside, where the number of prophets and messiahs gathering followers & preaching liberation from Rome was growing out of control, or in Jerusalem, where the Sicarii buoyed by their success in killing the high priest Yonathan, were now murdering & pillaging at will! So overwhelmed was Festus by this stress of his position that he now died very soon after taking the office! He was followed by Lucceius Albinus, a notorious degenerate, swindler, and incompetent who spent his two years in Yerushalayim especially enriching himself by plundering the wealth of the populace! After Albinus came Gessius Florus, whose brief turbulent tenure was remembered because first it made the years under Albinus seem positively peaceful in comparison & second, he would be the last Roman governor Yerushalayim would know! It was now 64 CE/vC.: in two years' time the anger, resentment, and messianic zeal that had been steadily building throughout the land would erupt into a full-scale "Revolt against ROME"! Cumanus, Felix, Festus, Albinus, Florus ~ each of these governors contributed through his malfeasance to the "Jewish UPRISING"! Rome itself was thus to blame for its mismanagement & severe overtaxation of the beleaguered population! Certainly the "Jewish ARISTOCRACY", with their incessant conflicts and their sycophantic efforts to gain power and influence by bribing "Roman Officials", shared responsibility for that deteriorating 'social order'!
No doubt the "TEMPLE Leadership" played a role in fostering the widespread sense of injustice and crushing poverty that had left SO MANY Jews with no choice but to turn to violence?
Add to all this the seizure of private lands, the high levels of unemployment, the displacement and forced urbanization of the peasantry, and the drought and famine that devastated the Judean and Galilean countryside, & it was only a matter of time before the fires of rebellion would engulf the whole of Palestine: it seemed that the entire 'Jewish Nation' was ready to erupt into a open REVOLT at the slightest provocation ~ which Florus was foolish enough to provide.
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