Kingdom Come

While contemporary society thinks in terms of the West – US and Europe vs the East – Middle and Far, in Biblical times the geopolitics were arranged north and south of the Mediterranean.

At the time of Christ’s first coming the King of the North was the Roman Caesar.

The Caesarian dynasty rose to power by its founder’s victories against tribes of Gauls from what became known as Europe. Think of this as the equivalent of the French and Indian War which groomed George Washington  into becoming Father of His Country.

Gaius Julius Caesar must be understood by Latin name convention as

1. first/personal name Gaius – as insignificant to his public identity as “Donald” is to “President Trump”,
2. of the more significant clan / tribe / surname Caesar, a branch equivalent to Jesus as a branch of King David’s founding father Jesse of the tribe of Judah.
3. of the most significant heritage via the total number of people /gens {genetics, generations} of Julus, equivalent to Jesus of the ethnic nation of Jacob / Israel.

We can work even further backwards in time on Julus’ genealogy, exactly as on Jesus’.

• Julus was the son of Aeneas, a member of the royal family of Troy, one of the few Trojans who escaped with his life after the notoriously failed Trojan War.
• Aeneas was what the Greeks called a hero, what the Bible calls a hybrid giant, a product of mixed human and fallen angel genes from his mortal royal Trojan father Anchises and the acclaimed fertility goddess Venus {Latin), Aphrodite (Greek), Inanna (Sumerian) , Ishtar (Babylonian). This is not mythology. Archeologists are unable to pin down Trojan ethnicity due to its ancient – translate early post-Flood – appearance in the region. Their best guess derived from the Hittite-Luwian script, discovered in the ancient city of Hattusa, is that, being in the same region at the same time, that these must be the Luwians Archeology validates Homer’s attribution of power due to hybridization with the gods by these people. See posts in Sections XIX – XX for details on how Aeneas is the Japhethite equivalent to his cousin “Ham”urabi.

Caesar’s claim to divine connections was demonstrated by:

• putting his image on Roman coinage – the first for a living Roman,
• having his statues erected in public temples as the High Priest / Vicar / Representative in the flesh of the national god,
• Renaming his birth month, originally Quintilis / Fifth (month in ancient Roman calendar} after his divine lineage with the fertility goddess through his ancestor Julus, equating him with the gods Janus / January, Mars / March, Aphrodite / April, Maia / May. 

Moves to legally declare him in actually a sacral king in the full ancient sense of incorporating the divine spirit were only pre-empted by his assassination in 44 BC.

Julius Caesar’s will announced that his great-nephew of the family Octavius was his formally adopted heir, which is to say “only begotten son” (see post 34). Accordingly, his heir’s

1. gens – key lineage from ancient ancestor – was legally changed from Octavius to Julius
2. and his clan – one of the many families descended from the more ancient ancestor – name to Caesar.

His heir’s “new name” / identity was by this means made identical to that of his adoptive father. in effect extending the life, power and authority of the original father. As in “I and the father are one.” (John 10:30)

Virgil’s sycophantic tale The Odessey was commissioned by Julius’ heir to shore up his legitimacy after public outcry against Julius’ presumption of kinghood (think Trump in the Republic of America in 2025).

The Odyssey is essentially a sequel to Homer’s war story The Iliad glorifying the Greeks, but instead describing Trojan Aeneas’ founding Rome as the successor city-state to his family’s Troy, during which “Caesar from the Julian stock shall rise…Then banish’d Faith shall once again return.”

The Faith banished by Republican Rome that was restored by Caesar was the ancient practice of worshipping the human king as the incarnation of the national god’s spirit through which the god accomplished his will – the evil spirit equivalent of Holy Spirit possession.

Caesar II in the first century Roman empire was certainly understood to continue the dynastic succession, by taking on the spirit of his ancestor god, becoming known as divi Iuli filius (son of the divine Julius), easing into simply divi filius (son of the god).

In an unprecedented move in Republican Rome, he used this title to be worshiped as a deity. He became entitled Augustus, meaning Divine, i.e. a living god, not waiting until death to be deified like Caesar I, and he instituted the imperial cult by which all Caesars were deified and granted many titles, all of which attributed aspects of divine power.

• Divi Filius, meaning ‘Son of the Divine,’ or ‘Son of God,’ was his favorite title.  This title appears on almost every coin minted by Augustus.
• Dominus in Latin, or Kyrios in Greek, which means ‘Lord.’
• Soter, meaning ‘Savior,’ a title conveying that by his victories in battle he had saved the empire from internal political instability, financial ruin, and external threats by foreign powers.
• Pontifex  Maximus, meaning ‘High Priest’, head of the state religion, i.e. vicar, human embodiment of the chief god Jupiter / Zeus who ruled through him.

From a biblical perspective, all of these named attributes are appropriated titles of The Promised Seed / Prophesied Savior / Christ.

While The Republic came to a practical end with Julius Caesar, Augustus maintained the facade of republican government by calling himself princeps, an oxymoron meaning ‘first among equals’. 

Like his predecessor, Augustus chose, by adopting, his successor, Tiberius i.e. authorized his own “only begotten son” to succeed him. Followed legal procedures still in use today, his heir’s birth family name was changed to the dynastic family name “Caesar”.

When Tiberias ascended (get it? ascended) to the throne in 14 AD as the living incarnation of divus Augustus his identity once again merited a new name / title / entitlement of Tiberius Caesar Augustus.

For the last 2,000 years aspirants to the Roman throne have claimed adoption into the “Caesar” family in any language such as Kaiser / Czar / Tsar – as claimant / heir to YHVH’s rival ruler of the last World Empire, i.e. the aspiring Antichrist in the rise and fall of the leading nationalities within the Roman Empire.

When in 476 the barbarian German warlord Odoacer conquered Rome, which by then had become an outlier in the predominantly Eastern Roman Empire ruled from Constantinople in Greece, he and his heirs did not deny the title to the ruler in Constantinople, but did aspire to assume equal status as co-regent. There was specific precedent in Republican Rome which was headed by two consuls.

In 800, having through military means reassembled what had been fragmented over the last four centuries into minor kingdoms, Charlemagne, king of the Franks / French, restored the Western Roman Empire’s control over borderlands lost to invading Norsemen, and in reward crowned himself Roman Emperor in attendance by the Pope at Rome in 800.

Like Odoacer, he did not, however, claim to be ruler of the entire Roman Empire, only of the Western portion. He did assert himself as co-Emperor using his international powers when he established diplomatic ties with the Islamic Abbasid caliph in Baghdad, joining forces against their common enemies, the Christian emperors in Eastern Europe and the Islamic Umayyad caliphs in Spain / Western Europe. 

With the loss of Constantinople to the Moslems the Russian ruler assumed the title of Caesar / Tsar and transferred the seat of government of the Roman Empire to Moscow as the Third Rome as the Orthodox  / True King of the North.

The Moscow Prince – as supreme ruler and defender of the Christian Eastern Orthodox Church – has the divine right and empowerment to rule as God’s representative as an autocrat. 

The Tsar’s competing heir to the Eastern Orthodox Byzantine throne, Andreas Palaiologos, found refuge in the West. Failing to win support from any Western European king for a crusade to win back “his” throne at Constantinople, he bequeathed his rights at his death in 1502 to the greatest powerhouse at that time, the Spaniards elevating King Ferdinand, married to Queen Isabella / Jezebel, into a legal Emperor of Rome. However, he never used the title. In their case, actions spoke louder than words, as they had already expanded their dominion into the New World by funding Christopher Columbus’ voyages. (Map shows Spanish Empire in red and Portuguese in blue during union of their empires 1581-1640.)

Due to the ongoing practice from ancient times of royals marrying relatives, the Spanish monarchy passed by inheritance to the House of Habsburg, one of the most powerful dynasties in the history of Europe and Western civilization. They were best known for their inbreeding and for ruling vast realms throughout Europe including the Holy Roman Empire and Spanish Empire. The Habsburgs continuously occupied the throne of the Holy Roman Empire from 1440 until their extinction in the male line in 1740, reincorporated through the female Habsburg line joined in marriage to a male from Lorraine as the Habsburg-Lorraines from 1765 until its dissolution in 1806 by Napoleon’s empire.

In 1806 Napoleon Bonaparte conquered the Germanic Holy Roman Empire’s territories, shown in the map in blue with green allies and forced the Spanish king to abdicate.

While modestly calling himself Emperor of France, Napoleon identified himself as Emperor of Rome by having himself crowned with both a replica of Charlemagne’s Roman Emperor crown and a Roman laurel wreath. He also conferred on his son the title King of Rome, which is, like the official designation of the heir to the throne of England ,”Prince of Wales,” the official designation of the heir to the Emperor of the Roman Empire.

After Napoleon was frozen out of his bid to incorporate the Russian sector of the Roman empire, he also lost the western half to the British at the Battle of Waterloo by virtue of the British having by then won an even greater Revolution.

Economic historians are in agreement that the onset of the Industrial Revolution is the most important event in the history of humanity since the domestication of animals and plants. Beginning in the 18th century, England’s skyrocketing rise to wealth and power was made possible in part through locally discovered oil.

By the mid-18th century, Britain was the world’s leading commercial nation, controlling a global trading empire with colonies in North America and the Caribbean and military and political hegemony on the Indian subcontinent.

The 20th century was primarily a series of wars among competing empires, all of them grounded in the ideology of the template modern revolution – the atheist, humanistic French Revolution, of which it was astutely predicted: “From this place, and from this day forth begins a new era in the history of the world.“ (Goethe)

By 1913 the British Empire had become the foremost global power and was by far the largest empire in history, controlling 23% of the world’s population and covering 24% of the Earth’s total land area.

Not to be outdone, after 1850 the states of Germany had rapidly become industrialized, with particular strengths in coal, iron (and later steel), chemicals, and railways. Competing for first place in the world against Britain, 25 Germany states, each with its own nobility formed the Germany empire, AKA the Second Reich, (Charlemagne’s being the First) in 1871 at the Palace of Versailles. Wilhelm I, King of the largest state, Prussia, was granted the title of German Emperor / Deutscher Kaiser, with Berlin as its capital.

During its 47 years of existence, the German Empire became an industrial, technological, and scientific giant, building the longest railway network of Europe and the world’s strongest army, and a navy second only to Britain‘s Royal Navy. One-third of all Nobel Prizes went to German inventors and researchers.

Claiming much of the leftover territory that was not yet conquered by Europeans in the Scramble for Africa, it managed to build the third-largest colonial empire at the time, after the British and the French ones. By 1913, Germany was the largest economy in continental Europe and the third-largest in the world. The empire embarked on Weltpolitik (“world politics”) – a bellicose new course that ultimately contributed to the outbreak of World War I. In 1879, the German Empire consolidated the Dual Alliance with Austria-Hungary, followed by the Triple Alliance with Italy in 1882.