Did Jewish Zealots Burn Rome in 64 CE?

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I have watched the PBS documentary "Secrets of the Dead: Great Fire of 

Rome".  One interesting fact which they uncovered was that, according to 

the German scholar G. Baudy, Christian Apocalyptic texts from the mid 

1st century CE indicate that militant Messianic Christians really DID burn 

Rome.  All these texts predict that Rome will burn on the day that the Dog 

Star Sirius rises.  (This gives rise to the term, "Dog Days of Summer", as 

Sirius rises like this in Summer months in the N. hemisphere.)  And, the 

day of the "Great Fire of Rome" in 64 CE was 19 July, the day that Sirius 

rose at dawn.  Furthermore, Nero's punishment of torching people alive 

was Rome's standard punishment for arsonists... if you try to burn our 

city, we'll burn you.

However, according to the Jewish Encyclopedia article entry on "Herod's 

Temple", the Herodian Temple was completed sometime between 62-64 

CE, shortly before the Great Fire of Rome.  And, the completion of the 

"Temple of God" was one major Messianic requirement that would usher 

in the End Times.  (Given that Christians are "spiritual stones" in the 

Spiritual Temple of the Christian Church, this is why the Messiah says in 

Matthew that when the Gospel is taken to the world, ie the Spiritual 

Temple is completed, then the end shall come.)

So, given that there were many OTHER Messianic claimants besides 

Yeshua of Galilee whom the Jews rejected, and given that the major 

Messianic prophecy had just been completed in the Jews' eyes with the 

completion of Herod's Temple in c. 63 CE...

It seems to me that Messianic Jews burning Rome in 64 CE doesn't mean 

CHRISTIANS as we think of them today, but the RADICAL ZEALOT 

extremists who believed Menahem ben Hezekiah was the Messiah.

In short, I believe that Jewish terrorists torched Rome in 64 CE.  And, 

indeed, this is what triggered the Romans to invade Judea in 67 and sack 

Jerusalem in 70 CE... they thought it was REVENGE for what the Jews had 

done.

All I'm saying is, the Romans were right: Jewish terrorists torched Rome in 

64 CE to get back at their heathen enemy.

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	http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/case_rome/ I have watched the PBS documentary "Secrets of the Dead: Great Fire of Rome". One interesting fact which they uncovered was that, according to the German scholar G. Baudy, Christian Apocalyptic texts from the mid 1st century CE indicate that militant Messianic Christians really DID burn Rome. All these texts predict that Rome will burn on the day that the Dog Star Sirius rises. (This gives rise to the term, "Dog Days of Summer", as Sirius rises like this in Summer months in the N. hemisphere.) And, the day of the "Great Fire of Rome" in 64 CE was 19 July, the day that Sirius rose at dawn. Furthermore, Nero's punishment of torching people alive was Rome's standard punishment for arsonists... if you try to burn our city, we'll burn you. However, according to the Jewish Encyclopedia article entry on "Herod's Temple", the Herodian Temple was completed sometime between 62-64 CE, shortly before the Great Fire of Rome. And, the completion of the "Temple of God" was one major Messianic requirement that would usher in the End Times. (Given that Christians are "spiritual stones" in the Spiritual Temple of the Christian Church, this is why the Messiah says in Matthew that when the Gospel is taken to the world, ie the Spiritual Temple is completed, then the end shall come.) So, given that there were many OTHER Messianic claimants besides Yeshua of Galilee whom the Jews rejected, and given that the major Messianic prophecy had just been completed in the Jews' eyes with the completion of Herod's Temple in c. 63 CE... It seems to me that Messianic Jews burning Rome in 64 CE doesn't mean CHRISTIANS as we think of them today, but the RADICAL ZEALOT extremists who believed Menahem ben Hezekiah was the Messiah. In short, I believe that Jewish terrorists torched Rome in 64 CE. And, indeed, this is what triggered the Romans to invade Judea in 67 and sack Jerusalem in 70 CE... they thought it was REVENGE for what the Jews had done. All I'm saying is, the Romans were right: Jewish terrorists torched Rome in 64 CE to get back at their heathen enemy.