What Were Politics Like in Jesus's Day? | Who Is Jesus?

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🗓️ 11 November 2020

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Has politics always been such a big deal in society? It definitely was in Jesus's time! Learn why from https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/staff/patrick-miller/ (Pastor Patrick Miller) as we continue our series on https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcast-series/who-is-jesus/ (Who Is Jesus?). Interested in more content like this? Listen to https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcasts/what-was-jesuss-everyday-life-like-who-is-jesus/ (What Was Jesus's Everyday Life Like?) and https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcasts/keep-your-faith-out-of-the-voting-booth-questions-youre-asking-matthew-4-8-9/ (Keep Your Faith Out of the Voting Booth?) from our last series on https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcast-series/questions-youre-asking/ (Questions You're Asking). Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. To learn more, visit our https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/ (website) and follow us on https://www.facebook.com/TenMinuteBibleTalks (Facebook), https://www.instagram.com/thecrossingcomo/ (Instagram), and https://twitter.com/thecrossingcomo (Twitter) @TheCrossingCOMO and @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Outline 0:15 - Was Jesus into politics? 1:10 - Tension between Jews and Romans 2:55 - Judas the Galilean's revolt 3:50 - https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcasts/keep-your-faith-out-of-the-voting-booth-questions-youre-asking-matthew-4-8-9/ (Keep Your Faith Out of the Voting Booth?) 4:15 - 4 major responses by the Jews 9:15 - Understanding Jesus's world: https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcasts/what-was-jesuss-everyday-life-like-who-is-jesus/ (What Was Jesus's Everyday Life Like?) 10:10 - Subscribe. Rate. Share. Social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TenMinuteBibleTalks (https://www.facebook.com/TenMinuteBibleTalks) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thecrossingcomo/ (https://www.instagram.com/thecrossingcomo/) Twitter: https://twitter.com/thecrossingcomo (https://twitter.com/thecrossingcomo) Related Keep Your Faith Out of the Voting Booth?: https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcasts/keep-your-faith-out-of-the-voting-booth-questions-youre-asking-matthew-4-8-9/ (https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcasts/keep-your-faith-out-of-the-voting-booth-questions-youre-asking-matthew-4-8-9/) What Was Jesus's Everyday Life Like?: https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcasts/what-was-jesuss-everyday-life-like-who-is-jesus/ (https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcasts/what-was-jesuss-everyday-life-like-who-is-jesus/) Who Is Jesus?: https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcast-series/who-is-jesus/ (https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcast-series/who-is-jesus/) Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now.

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:11.0	I'm Keith Simon.
0:12.0	And I'm Patrick Miller. Right now we are asking who is Jesus?
0:16.2	Was Jesus into politics? Well to be honest I'm not sure you had much of a choice.
0:21.6	I realize that in a Democratic society maybe there are some people who view politics as kind of being optional. I can participate or I cannot participate however true or untrue that actually really is.
0:32.5	In Jesus' day, there was no such choice.
0:35.6	Politics were interwoven into his everyday reality.
0:40.3	Well, why was that?
0:41.8	It's because Jesus lived in military occupied territory.
0:45.4	Nearly 60 years before Jesus' birth, the Roman general Pompeii conquered Jerusalem
0:51.1	and desecrated the temple by walking into the holy of holies which was the most sacred
0:56.2	site in all of Judaism at the time. Now there's the I am no expert on imperial aspirations but I have to think that desecrating a populace's most important
1:05.2	holy site is probably not the best way to start up a new relationship.
1:10.0	Most Jews definitely agreed with me because from that point forward the relationship
1:14.1	between the Jewish populace in Rome was always tense rebellion revolution they were
1:20.5	always fomenting just beneath the surface.
1:23.0	Why? Well, most Jews believed that God was going to make things right again,
1:29.0	that he was going to return and reign on Earth as in heaven. He's getting a right wrongs, overturn
1:34.8	injustice and deal with their Gentile overlords and that meant that they were
1:39.6	always ready for the moment of revolution to come. So it's a surprise that violence broke out occasionally,
1:45.8	especially on holy days like Passover when Israel remembered how God rescued them from
1:51.9	their previous oppressors, empires like Egypt.
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