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Oct 11, 2024 · Describe the Roman world at the time of Christ. How did these circumstances enable Christ to come in "the fulness of the time?"
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There was a period of 400 years of silence between the completion of the Old Testament and the birth of Jesus Christ. It is important to understand what occurred during these years as background to the coming of God the Son into the world. We will briefly sum up these four hundred “silent years.”
As we can observe from the above points, the timing of the coming into the world of God the Son, Jesus Christ, was certainly not accidental. Indeed, as we find throughout the Scripture, there is no such thing as coincidence or chance. The God of the Bible has a plan. Before His Son entered our world there were a number of things which had to be pre...
To better appreciate the life and ministry of Jesus Christ it is important to have some understanding of the world in which He came. For one thing, there were four hundred silent years between the time the Old Testament was completed and God broke into the world again in the New Testament period. While these were silent years from God, they certain...
Dec 16, 2015 · Two thousand years ago, around the time that Jesus of Nazareth was born, the second Holy Temple was still standing in Jerusalem. The Great Pyramid at Giza was already 2,500 years old, but the ...
Dec 13, 2023 · Jesus’s birth occurred at a volatile moment in the history of what was already a troubled and turbulent land — and memories of the violent events that occurred shaped perceptions and politics ...
Nov 13, 2017 · Herod and his descendants held power with Rome’s permission. By the time of Christ’s birth, the Romans had ruled the world for half a century. The republic had turned into a tyranny, with the emperor in charge of the empire. They governed conquered areas in different ways.
Dec 23, 2018 · Greek society endured for a long time and had overwhelmed the Holy Land at the time of Christ. Look at a map of the Holy Land at the time of Christ, and you will see many cities with Greek names. Greek philosophy permeated Jewish beliefs and later Christian beliefs.
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And how would the Hellenistic world have influenced Jesus? Jesus apparently grew up in Galilee which was at that time under Herod Antipas undergoing a form of Hellenization.
