I Appeal To Caesar!

paid for it, oh, how they paid for it—emptied of God and love, godless and loveless wretches.

Since they didn’t bother to acknowledge God, God quit bothering them and let them run loose. And then all hell broke loose: rampant evil, grabbing and grasping, vicious backstabbing. They made life hell on earth with their envy, wanton killing, bickering, and cheating. Look at them: mean-spirited, venomous, fork-tongued God-bashers. Bullies, swaggerers, insufferable windbags! They keep inventing new ways of wrecking lives. They ditch their parents when they get in the way. Stupid, slimy, cruel, cold- blooded. And it’s not as if they don’t know better. They know perfectly well they’re spitting in God’s face. And they don’t care — worse, they hand out prizes to those who do the worst things best! Endnotes for Chapter 13, Face-to-face with Antichrist P. 4 Paul’s sufferings support his apostleship. See 2 Corinthians 11:23-33. P. 4 The Bema or “Judgment Seat.” “In Acts 7:5 bema means ‘step,’ ‘stride,’ or ‘length,’ but elsewhere in the NT and most often in Gr. Lit. it means ‘tribunal,’ ‘judicial bench, ’‘judgment seat’ or ‘throne, traditionally erected in public from which judgment and other official business was conducted.” C. Brown, “Judgment Seat,” ZPE, Vol. 3, p. 760.

P. 6 Jesus’ Advice when before magistrates. Matthew 10:17-19, “… do not worry ….”

P. 8 Why would Nero speak in Greek? “Greek had become the lingua franca of Asia Minor. Latin was the language of Roman provincial administration.” The Harper Atlas of the Bible, p. 186. Paul would have been familiar with some basic Latin terms, but not fluent as when he prophesied!

P. 10 “Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,” is a quotation from Joel 2:28 (where the Holy Spirit’s coming is predicted) and then quoted by