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Originally Posted by aron
There's a story in Eusebius' Church History, in which the grandsons of Jude, named Zoker and James, are summoned before Domitian, who fears a return of the Davidic line. He asks of the kingdom they represent, and they reply that it isn't temporal or earthly, but rather heavenly and angelic. These were dirt farmers with calloused hands, not soft men with palace intrigues. They were truly "looking above, where Jesus is."
But they clearly didn't care about people, but rather about using people to build a system.
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We in the Midwest LC's found that out the hard way, but thank the Lord we did. Once people are
used to build your system, the benefits of faith, love, and prayer are soon discarded, and fleshly leaders learn to use courts and money and books and buildings to build their "empire."
Great story about James' progeny,
aron. Concerning Caesar Domitian, Eusebius says he despised these two dirt farmers as simpletons, threw them out from his presence, and then ordered the persecution of Christians to cease.
Just incredible! These farmers then went on to be church leaders.
Soon Domitian's rule ended and the banishment of Apostle John ended. He then returned from the island of Patmos to his home in Ephesus, writing what he had seen and heard.