So, Hey my friends it's Matt this is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and this is

epilogue week this has been the week where we track down what happened after the

book of Nehemiah so we looked at the fall of Persia we looked at the rise of Alexander the Great and his Greek-ish

hordes, we looked at the decline of the political descendants of Alexander and

the rise of Rome and the far west on the Italian

Peninsula and we looked at the momentary restoration of a Jewish kingdom

from the 160s BC to the 60s BC where after a great

rebellion or revolutionary war the Jewish people made a kingdom again but the kingdom

flopped it fell on its face and

last time around we looked at how they decided to look west and call in the help of

a great superpower much in the same way that their ancestors had tried to do the same thing with the

great superpowers of your but unfortunately the Jewish people got the same

result as the other times they called in the help of a great superpower.

It backfired, it blew up on them and Pompeii and the Romans took over the

Hasmonian dynasty, established their own leaders there, divided it up into a couple

of provinces, and that was that.

But Rome wasn't impervious to corruption and problems either and we talked about how

Julius Caesar got stabbed to death in 44 BC and there's a big Roman Civil War after that. in the end it's a guy named Caesar Augustus

who wins out and sets in motion the events that lead to the beginning of the

New Testament and the birth of Jesus, but yesterday we're talking

specifically about all the different responses amongst the Jewish people who had recently been friendly conquered by Pompeii and the Romans

and are now occupied by the Romans are now subjects to the Romans or now taxpayers to the Romans. It wasn't a unified response amongst the

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